Food basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black dye is Tule skin and mud. Cotton string around rim.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Mud, Reed, and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis and Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17 centimeters and height 9.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 25