Mat

Museum number:
1-37809
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010037809
Accession number:
Acc.500EG and Acc.87
Description:
Made of tule, double. Break in middle, tule disintegrated. Sewn with tule cordage, tule ends turned under and twined with cordage on one side, other side twined with 2 rows of tules at edge. Layers separate, braided together at ends.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and T. A. Greig
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Tolowa
Maker or artist:
Mother of Jennie Scott
Collector:
T. A. Greig
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and August 25, 1936
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 162 centimeters, height 1 centimeters, and width 104 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mat, accession number 1-37809, described as Made of tule, double. Break in middle, tule disintegrated. Sewn with tule cordage, tule ends turned under and twined with cordage on one side, other side twined with 2 rows of tules at edge. Layers separate, braided together at ends.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mat, accession number 1-37809, described as Made of tule, double. Break in middle, tule disintegrated. Sewn with tule cordage, tule ends turned under and twined with cordage on one side, other side twined with 2 rows of tules at edge. Layers separate, braided together at ends.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 1-37809, described as Made of tule, double. Break in middle, tule disintegrated. Sewn with tule cordage, tule ends turned under and twined with cordage on one side, other side twined with 2 rows of tules at edge. Layers separate, braided together at ends.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 1-37809, described as Made of tule, double. Break in middle, tule disintegrated. Sewn with tule cordage, tule ends turned under and twined with cordage on one side, other side twined with 2 rows of tules at edge. Layers separate, braided together at ends.

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