Tray. Plain twined. Round, geometric and floral design in straw color with red and yellow highlights on dark brown ground, openwork around rim. Made with conifer root, white grass and dyed porcupine quill overlay. Human hair twined into weft near rim.
Donor:
Mrs. Charles C. Cushing
Collection place:
Klamath Lake, Klamath County, Central Oregon
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 45.2 centimeters
Comment:
Information entered into the Comments field of the Provenience Window prior to 1999: "Klamath-Modoc att." This information, whose attribution is unknown, has been removed from the Provenience Comments field to this Comments Window. Museum document review in December 1999 indicates that additional provenience information was added to the card for this catalogue number. This additional information, and the original Ledger provenience information, have been recorded in the Comments field of each of the two previously entered Provenience Windows.