Acorn basket

Museum number:

1-1474

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Alternate number:

58 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.17 and Acc.86

Object count:

1

Description:

Acorn basket. Grimy from use. 1 break in rim. Plain twined. Twill twining on bottom. White overlay. Floated on back. 2 lattice twined rows of overlay between design band and rim. Geometric design.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1901

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Mush basket bowl and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1903 and November 20, 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

diameter 19 centimeters and height 10 centimeters

Comment:

Published: AAE II, 4, p 123, Fig 100.

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