25 (original number) and TB-8 (tb (temporary basket) number, The basket had lost its number but through a published image was identified as 1-1441. TB-8 was assigned during the basket move in 2000.)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Object count:
1
Description:
Acorn basket. Acorn mush bowl with overlay of bear grass with double cross designs on conifer root weft. Heavily used. From TB-8 record: "This tb- number has been determined to match the known catalog number: 1-1441 based on: the double cross design for catalog number 1-1441 was that was published in AAE, II, 4, p 122, Fig 67. Culture also matches per Ralph Shanks." 2014-06-11 J. Oligmueller
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:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 20.4 centimeters and height 10 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE, II, 4, p 122, Fig 67. Was marked as missing in 1992, presumably because number had fallen off. Identified during basket move as TB-8 it was matched to a historic photograph in AAE, II, 4 to reestablish museum number.