Basket

Object Details

Donor Name

Manufacturers Hanover Trust

BROWN CIRCULAR, SHALLOW BOWL. PURCHASED IN 1983 BY ROBERT CALDWELL FROM DAVID BOLOYAN, A COLLECTOR OF CALIFORNIA BASKETS. BOLOYAN HAD PURCHASED THE BASKET FROM MACLELLAN GALLERY, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, IN 1981. ORIGINAL COLLECTOR IS UNKNOWN. SOURCE OF CHUMASH CULTURE NAME IS ROBERT CALDWELL. LOCALITY ASSIGNED ON BASIS OF CULTURE.

INFORMATION FROM JAN TIMBROOK, CURATOR OF ETHNOGRAPHY, SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 2003: BASKET APPEARS TO HAVE GRASS BUNDLE FOUNDATION AND TUCKED FAG ENDS ON SEWING-STRAND SPLICES; MAY ALSO HAVE SOME DESIGN ELEMENTS IN SUMAC, WITH A GOLDEN JUNCUS BACKGROUND, ALTHOUGH SUMAC HAS DARKENED WITH AGE AND IT'S HARD TO MAKE OUT FROM PHOTO; THESE FEATURES ARE NOT TYPICAL OF CHUMASH BASKETRY, BUT ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF S. CALIFORNIA MISSION PEOPLES TO SOUTH OF CHUMASH, ESPECIALLY LUISENO, DIEGUENO, CAHUILLA AND SOMETIMES GABRIELINO; BASKET IS MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BE FROM ONE OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MISSION GROUPS RATHER THAN CHUMASH. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

Record Last Modified

30 Jul 2020

Specimen Count

1

Culture

Chumash (?)

Mission

Accession Date

1 Sep 1989

Accession Number

364978

USNM Number

E424190-0

Object Type

Basket

Diameter - Object

20 cm

Height - Object

4 cm

Place

California, United States, North America

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Anthropology

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Topic

Ethnology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8457268

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3c6c5f36e-a6f6-47cb-8de6-3ee2f9483c26