Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule. Black pattern is Tule root. White pattern is Reed (Urtica) Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Yellow dye is Porcupine quills (Erethizon dorsatum) in Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina).
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber and Mr. Moses
Collection place:
Klamath Lake Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Verbatim coll. place:
Klamath Lake Reservation
Culture or time period:
Modoc
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Porcupine quill, Reed, Tule (grass material), and Wolf lichen
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum, Letharia vulpina, Schoenoplectus acutus, and Urtica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.7 centimeters and diameter 20 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalog 1, p. 23