Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-12336
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012336
Alternate number:
1528 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is possibly Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed Tule. Crushed. Indigenous name: maksha.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1907
Materials:
Reed and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis and Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 59.5 centimeters and height 37.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 22
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12336, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is possibly Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed Tule. Crushed. Indigenous name: maksha.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12336, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is possibly Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed Tule. Crushed. Indigenous name: maksha.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12336, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is possibly Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed Tule. Crushed. Indigenous name: maksha.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12336, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White pattern is possibly Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is mud-dyed Tule. Crushed. Indigenous name: maksha.

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