Bowl basket
- Museum number:
- 1-2461
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010002461
- Alternate number:
- 95 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.41 and Acc.87
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Bowl basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). Whit pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Large, worn from use. Mostly plain twined, darker design on white overlay ground. Occasional double rows of 3 strand twining; 2 rows of lattice-twined shoots divide basket into 3 design areas.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Tolowa
- Collector:
- Pliny Earle Goddard
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
- Taxon:
- Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1903 and April 30, 1902
- Context of use:
- Used as a pan.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- height 15 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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