Mat

Museum number:
1-2517
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002517
Alternate number:
151 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.75 and Acc.87
Description:
Tule. Strung on cordage weft. 2 layers twined together by cordage and raw ends bound under at one side, other side has 2 rows twined with tule. Layers separate, braided together at ends.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Tolowa
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1903 and February 25, 1903
Context of use:
Used for bed.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 128 centimeters, height 1 centimeters, and width 70 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 1-2517, described as Tule. Strung on cordage weft. 2 layers twined together by cordage and raw ends bound under at one side, other side has 2 rows twined with tule. Layers separate, braided together at ends.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 1-2517, described as Tule. Strung on cordage weft. 2 layers twined together by cordage and raw ends bound under at one side, other side has 2 rows twined with tule. Layers separate, braided together at ends.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mat, accession number 1-2517, described as Tule. Strung on cordage weft. 2 layers twined together by cordage and raw ends bound under at one side, other side has 2 rows twined with tule. Layers separate, braided together at ends.

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