Basket
- Museum number:
- 1-1209
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001209
- Alternate number:
- 3209 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.19
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Unfinished cooking basket. Twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- August 4, 1901
- Materials:
- Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
- Taxon:
- Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers), Cooking baskets, Twined weaving, and Unfinished
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- December 7, 1901
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 27.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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