Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-12385
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012385
Alternate number:
1589 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small, with red striped figure. Indigenous name: kala.
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) and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Schoenoplectus acutus and Typha latifolia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used to eat woks from.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10.5 centimeters and diameter 21 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4799" Published: "AAE V, 4, Pl. 18 fig. 1" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 23
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12385, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small, with red striped figure. Indigenous name: kala.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12385, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small, with red striped figure. Indigenous name: kala.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12385, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small, with red striped figure. Indigenous name: kala.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12385, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small, with red striped figure. Indigenous name: kala.

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