Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-12469
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012469
Alternate number:
1686 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small red and white figured basket (maksha).
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Charly Coon, Family of Charly Coon [Possibly Modoc or Klamath], and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1907
Materials:
Cattail (material) and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Schoenoplectus acutus and Typha latifolia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.3 centimeters and diameter 16 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4799" Published: "AAE V, 4, Pl. 18 fig. 2" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 23
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12469, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small red and white figured basket (maksha).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12469, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small red and white figured basket (maksha).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12469, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small red and white figured basket (maksha).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12469, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small red and white figured basket (maksha).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12469, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small red and white figured basket (maksha).

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