Dish basket (maksu); twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Brown dye is grayish Tule skin in mud.
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:
Cattail (material) and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Schoenoplectus acutus and Typha latifolia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used to eat from.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8 centimeters and diameter 18 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 26