Coiled Cooking Basket (Bush-ka) with "Valley-Quail Topknot" (Shu-shu) and "Grape Leaves" (Ba-hu) Patterns Item Number: 08.491.8679 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
08.491.8679 basket is on the left. This basket has the plume or top-know motif on a cooking basket (bush-ka). These types of baskets with one or two patterns are found in the Maidu community of Mikchopdo at Chico CA. The design is valley quail and grape leaves (the diamonds).The quail pattern is weaver Wilson's best known basket design and can appear in different patterns: some called mountain quail and some, such as seen here, the more common valley quail, where the plume is curved and thick.
Credit Line
Museum Expedition 1908, Museum Collection Fund
Item History
- Made between 1860 and 1909
What
- Name
- Coiled Cooking Basket (Bush-ka) with "Valley-Quail Topknot" (Shu-shu) and "Grape Leaves" (Ba-hu) Patterns
- Identification Number
- 08.491.8679
- Type of Item
- cooking basket, pattern and coiled
- Material
- sedge root, briar root and willow shoot ?
- Overall
- length 6.75 in, width 13.25 in
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1860 and 1909
Other
- Classification
- Food/Drink