Storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Old seed gathering basket. Conical. Bottom repaired with skin. Grimy from use. Many breaks. Rounded bottom. Flexible. Plain twined. Bottom 3 strand twined overlay floated on back. Lower half of basket: bands of vertical and diagonal stripes. Upper half: parallel rows of vertically zigzagging parallelograms.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 41 centimeters and height 27 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-8615. For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 95.