Basket material

Museum number:
1-11926
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011926
Alternate number:
1060 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Redbud; blackened by burying in mud.
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:
Basket material. Bury in the muck about a swamp for 2 days to blacken. Another method is to mix tanbark and walnut shells to make a muck which colors them about same color as the swamp mud.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 24: 1060 same as above [1058-1059] same name, Bury in the muck about a swamp for 2 days to blacken. Another method is to mix tanbark & walnut shells to make a muck which colors them about same color as the swamp mud." "See also acc. envelope 291, Barrett's field cat. for fuller information.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket material, accession number 1-11926, described as Redbud; blackened by burying in mud.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket material, accession number 1-11926, described as Redbud; blackened by burying in mud.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket material, accession number 1-11926, described as Redbud; blackened by burying in mud.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket material, accession number 1-11926, described as Redbud; blackened by burying in mud.

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