Basket

Museum number:
1-11824
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011824
Accession number:
Acc.286
Description:
Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yuki and Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
May 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Trade item ?
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 33 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.

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