Openwork tray basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Alder root (Alnus) and Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Black color is mud-dyed. Mostly plain twined. Design very faint, is not overlay, pattern in dyed black.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Alder root, Hazel shoots, Mud, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Alnus, Corylus cornuta californica, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays, Trays, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 6 centimeters and diameter 25.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4981 15-8627" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 71