Cradle

Museum number:
1-9462
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
30 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Baby basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Rim of many slender hazel shoots bound with shreddy grape?
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Cradles (children's beds), and Twined weaving
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Baby basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cradle, accession number 1-9462, described as Baby basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Rim of many slender hazel shoots bound with shreddy grape?Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cradle, accession number 1-9462, described as Baby basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Rim of many slender hazel shoots bound with shreddy grape?
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle, accession number 1-9462, described as Baby basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Rim of many slender hazel shoots bound with shreddy grape?

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