Materials: Porcupine quill / Taxon: Xerophyllum tenax / Accession number: Acc.86

Start Over Materials Porcupine quill Taxon Xerophyllum tenax Accession number Acc.86

Museum number:: 1-2305
Culture or time period:: Wintu
Object class:: Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), and Twined weaving
Function:: 2.1 Daily Garb
Dimensions:: diameter 17 centimeters and height 8.5 centimeters
Collector:: Alfred L. Kroeber and John Campbell Merriam
Collection place:: Baird (historic place), Shasta County, California
Collection date:: 1903
Taxon:: Erethizon dorsatum, Letharia vulpina, Schoenoplectus acutus, and Xerophyllum tenax

Museum number:: 1-1594
Culture or time period:: Yurok
Object class:: Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), and Twined weaving
Function:: 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Dimensions:: 17 centimeters and height 8.5 centimeters
Collector:: Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:: Northwestern California
Collection date:: 1901
Taxon:: Adiantum pedatum, Corylus cornuta californica, Erethizon dorsatum, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax

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