Basket

Museum number:
1-11645
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.284
Description:
Flat, conical; of the type characteristic of Hupa though a few women also see the flat yurok forn of acorn meal sifter.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
May 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
For acorn soup.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters and diameter 21 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "This form of sifer is used by being tapped with the finger in the middle. For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, Page 9.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-11645, described as Flat, conical; of the type characteristic of Hupa though a few women also see the flat yurok forn of acorn meal sifter.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-11645, described as Flat, conical; of the type characteristic of Hupa though a few women also see the flat yurok forn of acorn meal sifter.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11645, described as Flat, conical; of the type characteristic of Hupa though a few women also see the flat yurok forn of acorn meal sifter.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11645, described as Flat, conical; of the type characteristic of Hupa though a few women also see the flat yurok forn of acorn meal sifter.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11645, described as Flat, conical; of the type characteristic of Hupa though a few women also see the flat yurok forn of acorn meal sifter.

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