Carrying basket

Museum number:
1-9523
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Alternate number:
91 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Old. Smoke darkened hole in bottom. Rim broken off, little remains. Plain twined. More closely worked near top edge and on bottom. Warps braided to form rim. Truncated cone shape.
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:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carrying baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
58 centimeters and height 46 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 78.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-9523, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Old. Smoke darkened hole in bottom. Rim broken off, little remains. Plain twined. More closely worked near top edge and on bottom. Warps braided to form rim. Truncated cone shape.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-9523, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Old. Smoke darkened hole in bottom. Rim broken off, little remains. Plain twined. More closely worked near top edge and on bottom. Warps braided to form rim. Truncated cone shape.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-9523, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Old. Smoke darkened hole in bottom. Rim broken off, little remains. Plain twined. More closely worked near top edge and on bottom. Warps braided to form rim. Truncated cone shape.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-9523, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Old. Smoke darkened hole in bottom. Rim broken off, little remains. Plain twined. More closely worked near top edge and on bottom. Warps braided to form rim. Truncated cone shape.

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