Food basket

Museum number:
1-12593
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012593
Alternate number:
1832 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
Description:
Cooking basket, maksha; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed split Tule. Old, shallow, flat-bottomed. The white is the reed 12591 - 2.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1907
Materials:
Reed and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis and Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 24
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Food basket, accession number 1-12593, described as Cooking basket, maksha; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed split Tule. Old, shallow, flat-bottomed. The white is the reed 12591 - 2.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Food basket, accession number 1-12593, described as Cooking basket, maksha; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed split Tule. Old, shallow, flat-bottomed. The white is the reed 12591 - 2.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Food basket, accession number 1-12593, described as Cooking basket, maksha; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed split Tule. Old, shallow, flat-bottomed. The white is the reed 12591 - 2.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Food basket, accession number 1-12593, described as Cooking basket, maksha; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed split Tule. Old, shallow, flat-bottomed. The white is the reed 12591 - 2.

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