Plate basket

Museum number:
1-9545
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Alternate number:
113 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Plate basket; twined. Weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). For seeds of meal. Dirty from use. Brown pattern is inner bark of sugar pine root. Plain twined. White and red overlay floated on back.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Common beargrass and Sugar pine (pinus lambertinana)
Taxon:
Pinus lambertiana and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 6 centimeters and 18 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 82.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-9545, described as Plate basket; twined. Weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). For seeds of meal. Dirty from use. Brown pattern is inner bark of sugar pine root. Plain twined. White and red overlay floated on back.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-9545, described as Plate basket; twined. Weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). For seeds of meal. Dirty from use. Brown pattern is inner bark of sugar pine root. Plain twined. White and red overlay floated on back.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-9545, described as Plate basket; twined. Weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). For seeds of meal. Dirty from use. Brown pattern is inner bark of sugar pine root. Plain twined. White and red overlay floated on back.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-9545, described as Plate basket; twined. Weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). For seeds of meal. Dirty from use. Brown pattern is inner bark of sugar pine root. Plain twined. White and red overlay floated on back.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-9545, described as Plate basket; twined. Weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). For seeds of meal. Dirty from use. Brown pattern is inner bark of sugar pine root. Plain twined. White and red overlay floated on back.

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