Baby basket with hood; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also Hazel (for both cradle and hood). Rim bound with Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana).
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 and Sugar pine (pinus lambertinana)
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica and Pinus lambertiana
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Cradles (children's beds), and Twined weaving