Basket material

Museum number:

1-214025

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010214025

Alternate number:

7 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.1437

Object count:

1

Description:

Basketry material. Fiber; hazel rods, fine.

Donor:

American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Klamath (CDP), Del Norte County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Del Norte; Klamath

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

August 1961

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Basketmaking supplies

Function:

8.3 For Manufacturing

Accession date:

1961

Context of use:

Finer rods used in making finer baskets. Warp rods. These are relatively coarse for this purpose.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Native name: "ho' lith" (fine hazel rods). Remarks: "Still finer [rods] are used for the very fine baskets, such as caps and the like.

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