3088 (original number) and TB-51 (attributed PAHMA number, possible match for basket currently under temporary number TB-111)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Object count:
1
Description:
Storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and peeled Hazel. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Strengthening Hazel hoops.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 3, 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:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary calalogue 1, p. 79. Noted as missing in 1992. See TB-51 for closest possible match, see also TB-55 and TB-54 for other possible matches.