Soup basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (apparently Spruce?). Blackened with smoke and grime. Worn from use. Rim bent into a wavy shape. Plain twined except for some 3-strand twining on bottom.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Tolowa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and February 25, 1903
Context of use:
Soup basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 21 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-8623" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 56