Tobacco basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum). Globose, plain twining, bands of horizontal and vertical stripes, 3 buckskin thong loops near rim (a fourth has come off). Grimy from use. One horizontal break near rim.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Tolowa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Common beargrass, Conifer root, Hazel shoots, and Maidenhair fern
Taxon:
Adiantum pedatum, Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tobacco baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and April 30, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters and diameter 13 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 56