Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). White band and triangles around rim. Yurok type.
Donor:
American Museum of Natural History
Collection place:
Hamburg Bar, Klamath River, Siskiyou County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Hamburg Bar
Culture or time period:
Shasta
Collector:
Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 20.6 centimeters and height 9.3 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 55.