Very large openwork burden basket. Plain twined, cylindrical shape. Several mends with shoots and cotton fabric. Bottom is more tightly woven; 3-strand twining. Warp ends twined together to form rim at top. Shoots lashed to inside of rim. The strap is of rawhide of deer. Warp and weft are Hazel.
Donor:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection place:
Maple Creek, Mad River, Humboldt County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Maple Creek
Culture or time period:
Whilkut
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard, Van Duzen Pete, and Wife of Pete
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Burden baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Burden basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 38 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 66." "Called kaitubbuL.