Carrying basket

Museum number:

1-11659

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Accession number:

Acc.285

Object count:

2

Count note:

1 bag of fragments

Description:

Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Coarse openwork carrying basket. Smoke blackened, some holes, part of rim broken off. Plain twined. Bottom more closely worked - warp ends braided to form rim. Truncated cone shape.

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 Stone

Collection date:

May 1907

Materials:

Hazel shoots

Taxon:

Corylus cornuta californica

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carrying baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.4 Transportation

Accession date:

1907

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 48 centimeters and 56 centimeters

Comment:

For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, P. 78.

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