Object class: Culinary containers / Materials: Nettle (fiber) / Accession number: Acc.303 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12746, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Nettle (Urtica) string. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Red dye is Tule root. White dye is twisted Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. horizontal figure. Nettle string rim. Indigenous name: maksha.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12636, described as Cooking basket (kala); diagonally twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Nettle (Urtica) string rim. Small, very closely woven, with figure of single oblique lines close to bottom.