Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Large. Grimy and worn from use. Plain twined. White overlay floated on back. 2 rows of 3 strand twining divide design band, 2 more occur at rim.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, and Sugar pine root
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinus lambertiana, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 27 centimeters and height 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-8601. Published: AAE, II, 4, p 119 Fig 57; AAE, XXXII, 1, pl 13 b. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 86.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #93: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (June 3, 1976–June 3, 1976)