60 (original number) and TB-15 (tb (temporary basket) number, Based on design this basket is the temporary basket catalog number TB-15.)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Object count:
1
Description:
Acorn basket. From TB-15 record: "Per Ralph Shanks: Conifer root with beargrass cooking basket or basket bowl. Lattice twining reinforcement near rim. Three strand twining on base. Main body is plain twined. The basket was used for cooking. This is probably 1-1476, based on design. Said to be Yurok but possibly from Southern Humboldt County Athabaskan speaking tribes based on technique." 2014-06-11 J. Oligmueller
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southern Humboldt Athabaskan and Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 26 centimeters and height 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE II, 4, p 123, Fig 106. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 86. Per Ruth Merrill: Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Was marked as missing in 1992, presumably because number had fallen off. Identified during basket move as TB-15 it was matched to a historic photograph AA II, 4 to reestablish museum number.