Mono Mush Basket

TITLE Mono Mush Basket
DESCRIPTION Mush Boiling Basket. Large. Decorative design: Two bands of two rows of triangular pattern in dark brown. The rows are not continuous. Triangular pattern that is not visible to eye is present on inside basket. Two-colors: Tan and dark brown.
STORAGE LOCATION East Wall Storage Cabinet 3
DATE (MADE) Late 19th – early 20th century
ARTIST/MAKER Western Mono
PLACE (MADE) California
DONOR INFORMATION/ PROVENANCE Collector: Louisa Williamson Hutchison Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Robins
MATERIALS Sedge root and Bracken Fern root coiled on grass bundle foundation.
MEASUREMENTS 10.8 (H) x 30.7 (W) x 110.8 (C) cm: (7.0 (H) x 14 1/2 (W) x 46 1/2 (C) in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER ULV-JAEGR-2014-191
NOTES Underside has a dark brown stain. Attached label: “”74 ULV Mono Mush”” and “”4-5″”. “” Card inside: “”W. Mono (S.W. Sierras CA – NV. Plain twined acorn mush boiling basket.”” Hutchison”” is painted in white [unknown] substance underneath.
HEADER Basketry
KEYWORDS Native American

Amerind
Basket
Basketry
Mush Basket
Mono
California
Indigenous
Ethnographic