Berry basket
- Museum number:
- 1-12672
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010012672
- Alternate number:
- 1935 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
- Description:
- Burden basket; twined. Rim of willow (Salix) fastened with cloth and willow bark.
- 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:
- Willow (wood)
- Taxon:
- Salix
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Berry baskets (food storage) and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- For storage. When hoop is placed about rim, it is used to gather swamp berries, seeds with handled seed beater. See 1-12671.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 46.5 centimeters and height 34 centimeters
- Comment:
- Material, techniques: "see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 20." Photo: "15-4795
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