Basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split Tule. White color is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black color is split Tule dyed in mud. With handle across top.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
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:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 31 centimeters and height 14 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue, 1, p. 24