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Feast bowl
Object Number 10-21-10/76477
Display Title Feast bowl
Descriptions
Object Description Feast bowl. Cooking basket for food at large feasts. Food boiled by dropping in hot rocks. Acorn meal main plant food; meat from deer and almost any animal or reptile except dog, coyote, birds of prey and sometimes bear. Late 1800s.
Inventory Description Large bowl-shaped basket, brown linear banded design, rim damaged.
Classification
  • Basket
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Foothill
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 30 x 62.8 x 61 cm (11 13/16 x 24 3/4 x 24 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 76477
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1910 - 1910)
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1910 - 1910)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1910 - 1910)

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