Mortar hopper. Twined basketry. Has hazel shoot warp, wefts are hazel shoot at base, pine root higher on body. Xerophyllum tenax overlay, doubled reinforcing bands of fiber wrapped material below rim and above base. Continuous jagged ascending- descending step design around body.
Donor:
Charles Brockhoff and Lucia Brockhoff
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Karuk
Collector:
Mrs. Brizzer
Collection date:
1910
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1973
Context of use:
Placed on flat stone for use as mortar for acorns, etc.