Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Nettle (Urtica) string. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Red dye is Tule root. White dye is twisted Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. horizontal figure. Nettle string rim. Indigenous name: maksha.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1907
Materials:
Cattail (material), Mud, Nettle (fiber), Reed, and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis, Schoenoplectus acutus, Typha latifolia, and Urtica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10.5 centimeters and diameter 22 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 25