Plate basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Mud-dyed warp. Basketry plate for salmon. Grimy from use. Plain, twined openwork, more closely twined at start. 5 stripes of black wefts radiate from center.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 31 centimeters and height 10 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-2568; 15-2555. Published: AAE, II, 4, Pl 18, Fig 3. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 85.