Acorn meal basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Wornout center mended with inserted piece of basketry. Very dirty from use. Plain twined, white overlay. Design difficult to discern. Formerly had a lattice twined reinforcing rod on the bottom. Insert: Same as basket; with black Maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) dye.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Meta, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Meta
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, Maidenhair fern, and Sugar pine (pinus lambertinana)
Taxon:
Adiantum pedatum, Corylus cornuta californica, Pinus lambertiana, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mush basket bowl and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 48 centimeters and height 9.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-8606. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 81.