Carrying basket

Museum number:
1-11695
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.285
Description:
Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Openwork carrying basket, coarse materials. Smoke darkened and dirty. Rim gone, one hole. Truncated cone shape. Plain twined, bottom more closely worked. Groups of 4 pairs of crossed warps below rim.
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:
Carrying baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
51 centimeters and height 40 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 78.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11695, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Openwork carrying basket, coarse materials. Smoke darkened and dirty. Rim gone, one hole. Truncated cone shape. Plain twined, bottom more closely worked. Groups of 4 pairs of crossed warps below rim.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11695, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Openwork carrying basket, coarse materials. Smoke darkened and dirty. Rim gone, one hole. Truncated cone shape. Plain twined, bottom more closely worked. Groups of 4 pairs of crossed warps below rim.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11695, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Openwork carrying basket, coarse materials. Smoke darkened and dirty. Rim gone, one hole. Truncated cone shape. Plain twined, bottom more closely worked. Groups of 4 pairs of crossed warps below rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11695, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Openwork carrying basket, coarse materials. Smoke darkened and dirty. Rim gone, one hole. Truncated cone shape. Plain twined, bottom more closely worked. Groups of 4 pairs of crossed warps below rim.

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