Image

Unknown Maker, Tulare

Cooking basket

Description

Maker

Unknown Maker, Tulare

Culture

Tulare, Yokuts, Native North American

Title

Cooking basket

Year

late 1800s-early 1900s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

24.1 cm (9 1/2 inches) (height)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mary A. Newell

Object Number

20.334

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Blankets and Baskets
Weavings from the American West
Jul 02, 2004 – Oct 10, 2004

Label copy

A popular snake motif, the sidewinder, is employed on the three decorative bands around this cooking basket. To make acorn soup, red-hot stones would be dropped into a mixture of acorn meal and water contained within the basket and then stirred around to cook the meal evenly and minimize scorching of the basket.

Gift of Mary A. Newell 20.334

Raid the Icebox 1 with Andy Warhol
Apr 23, 1970 – Jun 30, 1970

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Tulare
Cooking basket, late 1800s-early 1900s
Deer grass (foundation), sedge root, joshua tree root (rim), dyed bracken fern root; bundle coiled
24.1 cm (9 1/2 inches) (height)
Gift of Mary A. Newell 20.334

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