Basket

Museum number:
1-2524
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
158 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.75 and Acc.87
Description:
Spoon holder basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). Grimy from smoke, truncated cone shape. 2 holes, one mended. Plain twined openwork, warp ends braided together to form rim.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Tolowa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Alder root and Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Alnus and Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903 and February 25, 1903
Context of use:
Burden basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 56
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-2524, described as Spoon holder basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). Grimy from smoke, truncated cone shape. 2 holes, one mended. Plain twined openwork, warp ends braided together to form rim.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-2524, described as Spoon holder basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). Grimy from smoke, truncated cone shape. 2 holes, one mended. Plain twined openwork, warp ends braided together to form rim.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-2524, described as Spoon holder basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). Grimy from smoke, truncated cone shape. 2 holes, one mended. Plain twined openwork, warp ends braided together to form rim.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-2524, described as Spoon holder basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). Grimy from smoke, truncated cone shape. 2 holes, one mended. Plain twined openwork, warp ends braided together to form rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-2524, described as Spoon holder basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). Grimy from smoke, truncated cone shape. 2 holes, one mended. Plain twined openwork, warp ends braided together to form rim.

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