Food basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is also twisted Tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Brown dye is Tule skin in mud. Small, flaring, and pliable with white and dark brown overlaid lines.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Klamath Lake, Klamath County, Central Oregon
Verbatim coll. place:
Klamath Lake
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber and D. Moses
Collection date:
1907
Materials:
Mud, Reed, and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis and Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 16.2 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary C. 1, P. 26