Openwork tray basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Used. Mixed plain and twill twining, twined rows irregularly spaced.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays, Trays, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 71" "9403-9420 were obtained from the same individual, an old blind woman. Most of the baskets in this lot, excepting 9405, 9414, and 9415, were made by herself. The simplicity of their ornamentation must therefore be attributed to the personal factor of her blindness.