Carrying basket

Museum number:
1-11684
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.284
Description:
Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Dark pattern is Hazel. Mended with sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Striped with black in four places. Used. Smoke darkened. 1 mend. 4 sets of 2 warp stripes, composed of 3 warps per stripe. Plain open twined work. Groups of 6 crossed warp pairs near rim. Warp ends braided to form rim. Warp crossed in places below rim.
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 and Henry
Collection date:
May 1907
Materials:
Hazel shoots and Sugar pine root
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica and Pinus lambertiana
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carrying baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
50 centimeters and height 50 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, Page 78.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11684, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Dark pattern is Hazel. Mended with sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Striped with black in four places. Used. Smoke darkened. 1 mend. 4 sets of 2 warp stripes, composed of 3 warps per stripe. Plain open twined work. Groups of 6 crossed warp pairs near rim. Warp ends braided to form rim. Warp crossed in places below rim.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11684, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Dark pattern is Hazel. Mended with sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Striped with black in four places. Used. Smoke darkened. 1 mend. 4 sets of 2 warp stripes, composed of 3 warps per stripe. Plain open twined work. Groups of 6 crossed warp pairs near rim. Warp ends braided to form rim. Warp crossed in places below rim.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11684, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Dark pattern is Hazel. Mended with sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Striped with black in four places. Used. Smoke darkened. 1 mend. 4 sets of 2 warp stripes, composed of 3 warps per stripe. Plain open twined work. Groups of 6 crossed warp pairs near rim. Warp ends braided to form rim. Warp crossed in places below rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11684, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Dark pattern is Hazel. Mended with sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Striped with black in four places. Used. Smoke darkened. 1 mend. 4 sets of 2 warp stripes, composed of 3 warps per stripe. Plain open twined work. Groups of 6 crossed warp pairs near rim. Warp ends braided to form rim. Warp crossed in places below rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-11684, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Dark pattern is Hazel. Mended with sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). Striped with black in four places. Used. Smoke darkened. 1 mend. 4 sets of 2 warp stripes, composed of 3 warps per stripe. Plain open twined work. Groups of 6 crossed warp pairs near rim. Warp ends braided to form rim. Warp crossed in places below rim.

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