Tobacco basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). With lid; lid held on by 10 leather loops set in body of basket and tied together at top with vegetable fiber string. four repeated geometric designs on body of 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
Materials:
Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, and Sugar pine (pinus lambertinana)
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinus lambertiana, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tobacco baskets
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Context of use:
Tobacco basket
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12 centimeters and diameter 6 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-2517 Published: AAE II, 4, Pl 17, Fig 5; BAEB 78, Pl 73. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 80.
Loans:
S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968), S1983-1984 #32: Hoopa Tribal Museum (December 9, 1983–March 2, 1984), S1988-1989 #30: University of California Office of the President (1989–June 16, 1994), S1990-1991 #12: University of California Office of the President (December 17, 1990–June 16, 1994), and S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)