Tobacco basket
- Museum number:
- 1-11569
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010011569
- Accession number:
- Acc.267
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Tobacco basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum).
- Donor:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection place:
- Wa shek, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Humboldt; Wa shek
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber and F. E. Gist
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Materials:
- Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, Maidenhair fern, and Redwood root
- Taxon:
- Adiantum pedatum, Corylus cornuta californica, Sequoia sempervirens, and Xerophyllum tenax
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Tobacco baskets
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Tobacco basket.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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