Basket fragment

Museum number:

1-9534

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Alternate number:

102 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.233

Object count:

1

Description:

Plate basket; twined. Warp and weft are unpeeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Piece of old openwork carrying basket, used as tray. Plain twined. Very grimy and smoke blackened. 2 breaks.

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

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Hazel shoots

Taxon:

Corylus cornuta californica

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 43 centimeters and 23 centimeters

Comment:

For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 79.

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