Basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is also Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). Small trinket basket on string, browned by smoke. Broken.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Martin's Ferry, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Martin's Ferry
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots and Sugar pine root
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica and Pinus lambertiana
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 87.