Cooking basket

Museum number:

1-2275

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Alternate number:

859 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.70 and Acc.86

Object count:

1

Description:

Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black pattern is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum). Red dye is Chain fern (Woodwardia spinulosa) in alder (Alnus rubra).

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Lower Klamath River, Humboldt County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Klamath River; Lower Klamath River

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Alexander Brizard and Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1902

Materials:

Alder root, Chain fern, Common beargrass, Conifer root, Hazel shoots, and Maidenhair fern

Taxon:

Adiantum pedatum, Alnus rubra, Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, Woodwardia spinulosa, and Xerophyllum tenax

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Cooking baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama

Accession date:

1903 and February 10, 1903

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Published: AAE, V 32 # 1, pl 57 b. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 85.

Loans:

S1975-1976 #93: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (June 3, 1976–June 3, 1976)

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