Storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Smoke darkened. One break at bottom. Plain twined. White overlay design. Overlay element floats on back. Overlay dotted stripes inside on bottom. Major design on side a double horizontally zigzag band of triangles.
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
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 34 centimeters and diameter 43 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 95.