Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Meta, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Meta
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Common beargrass, Hazel shoots, and Sugar pine (pinus lambertinana)
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinus lambertiana, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-8603. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 86.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)