Plate basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Smaller (than 1 - 11688 ?). Caked with grime and smoke blackened from use. 1 break and breaks in rim. Plain twined.
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:
May 1907
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 49 centimeters and height 7.5 centimeters