Acorn basket. Appears little used if at all. Plain twined. Twill twined on bottom. White overlay, floated on reverse. Has property marks incorporated into design in black. Single faced overlay (there are white marks also on basket).
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:
23 centimeters and height 12 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-8710. Published: AAE II 4, p 119, Fig 47 XXXII v. 1, pl 16 a. Ill. UCPAAE Vol. 32.
Loans:
S1970-1971 #146: Denver Museum of Natural History (July 23, 1954–July 3, 1973)