Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
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 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Published: A.A.E. II, 4, p 118, Fig 23. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 86.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #41: Art Department (SF State University)/Lawrence E. Dawson (December 15, 1964–December 15, 1964) and S1968-1969 #85: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (February 26, 1969–February 26, 1969)