Basket fragments

Museum number:

1-9573a,b

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Accession number:

Acc.233

Object count:

2

Description:

Plate basket; twined. Warp and weft are unpeeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). In two pieces. Grimy from use. 9573a mended with cordage, 9573b has large break. Plain twined.

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

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Hazel shoots

Taxon:

Corylus cornuta californica

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1906

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

(b)— height 34 centimeters, (a)— height 33 centimeters, (a)— 21 centimeters, and (b)— 22 centimeters

Comment:

For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 79.

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