Food basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus) and Nettle (Urtica), weft is Tule string. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed split Tule.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Mud, Nettle (fiber), Reed, and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis, Schoenoplectus acutus, and Urtica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 22 centimeters and height 10.7 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue, 1, p. 24