Mortar basket
- Museum number:
- 1-11671
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010011671
- Accession number:
- Acc.285
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Mortar basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
- 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 and Weitchpec Frank
- Collection date:
- May 1907
- Materials:
- Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
- Taxon:
- Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- height 12.9 centimeters and diameter 40 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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