Dance basket
- Museum number:
- 1-2272
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010002272
- Alternate number:
- 856 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.70 and Acc.86
- Description:
- Dance basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum).
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Lower Klamath River, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Klamath River; Lower Klamath River
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alexander Brizard and Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, Maidenhair fern, and Sugar pine (pinus lambertinana)
- Taxon:
- Adiantum pedatum, Corylus cornuta californica, Pinus lambertiana, and Xerophyllum tenax
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- 1903 and February 10, 1903
- Context of use:
- Dance basket.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Comment:
- Photo: 15-8604. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 82.
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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