Coiled Cooking Basket (Bush-ku) with mountain quail topknot design (wash-wash-ka) Item Number: 08.491.8683 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
08.491.8983 basket is on the right. (See also 08.491.8679 description.) The cooking basket (bush-ka) has the design of the mountain-quail top-knot. This design was Wilson's best known design. The mountain-quail has a very long, straight top knot. Author Sally Bates suggests that this design may have been favored as the weaver's name, Oymutnee, meant "the sound made by a quail." Baskets such as this one seem to be characteristic of the Maidu community of Mikchopedo at Chico, CA.
Credit Line
Museum Expedition 1908, Museum Collection Fund
Item History
- Made between 1906 and 1910
What
- Name
- Coiled Cooking Basket (Bush-ku) with mountain quail topknot design (wash-wash-ka)
- Identification Number
- 08.491.8683
- Type of Item
- cooking basket, coiled and design
- Material
- sedge root, redbud and willow shoot ?
- Overall
- length 7.0 in, width 15.0 in
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1906 and 1910
Other
- Classification
- Food/Drink