Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-144991
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1624
Description:
Large twined basket of mush cooking type. Design in Xerophyllum overlay. Geometric design: "prized Karok pattern called "uswufumas" after a rock bearing a mark similar to this design. . .
Donor:
B. B. Wilder
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Karuk
Collector:
Guy C. Earl
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1962
Context of use:
Mush cooking type
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8 inches and diameter 17 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-144991, described as Large twined basket of mush cooking type. Design in Xerophyllum overlay. Geometric design: "prized Karok pattern called "uswufumas" after a rock bearing a mark similar to this design. . .Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-144991, described as Large twined basket of mush cooking type. Design in Xerophyllum overlay. Geometric design: "prized Karok pattern called "uswufumas" after a rock bearing a mark similar to this design. . .
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-144991, described as Large twined basket of mush cooking type. Design in Xerophyllum overlay. Geometric design: "prized Karok pattern called "uswufumas" after a rock bearing a mark similar to this design. . .Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-144991, described as Large twined basket of mush cooking type. Design in Xerophyllum overlay. Geometric design: "prized Karok pattern called "uswufumas" after a rock bearing a mark similar to this design. . .

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