Basket material

Museum number:
1-11930
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011930
Alternate number:
1064 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Redbud bundle. Made of sapwood. Used for white wefts in baskets.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketmaking supplies
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as white basket material.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.27: tcaha kolkai welts made from [the] middle of redbud. kolkai = back bone, i.e. spinal column of animal." "See also acc. envelope 291, Barrett's field cat. for fuller information.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket material, accession number 1-11930, described as Redbud bundle. Made of sapwood. Used for white wefts in baskets.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket material, accession number 1-11930, described as Redbud bundle. Made of sapwood. Used for white wefts in baskets.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket material, accession number 1-11930, described as Redbud bundle. Made of sapwood. Used for white wefts in baskets.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket material, accession number 1-11930, described as Redbud bundle. Made of sapwood. Used for white wefts in baskets.

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