Cooking basket

Museum number:

1-1606

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Alternate number:

190 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.17 and Acc.86

Object count:

2

Count note:

1 bag of fragments

Description:

Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Redwood root (Sequoia sempervirens) and Alder root (Alnus). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black pattern is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum). Yellow dye is Beargrass in lichen.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1901

Materials:

Alder root, Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, Maidenhair fern, and Redwood root

Taxon:

Adiantum pedatum, Alnus, Corylus cornuta californica, Sequoia sempervirens, and Xerophyllum tenax

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Cooking baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1903 and November 20, 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Photo: 15-8601. Published: AAE II, 4, p 122, Figs 69 & 79. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p 85.

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