Tray

Museum number:
1-9540
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
108 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Flat tray basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Filthy with dust. Appears warped out of the usual plate shape. Plain twined. 3 closely twined rows. 1 plain and 2 three strand twining, then warp ends turned and braided at rim.
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:
Basket trays, Trays, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 75 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 78.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Tray, accession number 1-9540, described as Flat tray basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Filthy with dust. Appears warped out of the usual plate shape. Plain twined. 3 closely twined rows. 1 plain and 2 three strand twining, then warp ends turned and braided at rim.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Tray, accession number 1-9540, described as Flat tray basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Filthy with dust. Appears warped out of the usual plate shape. Plain twined. 3 closely twined rows. 1 plain and 2 three strand twining, then warp ends turned and braided at rim.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-9540, described as Flat tray basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Filthy with dust. Appears warped out of the usual plate shape. Plain twined. 3 closely twined rows. 1 plain and 2 three strand twining, then warp ends turned and braided at rim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-9540, described as Flat tray basket; twined. Warp and weft are peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Filthy with dust. Appears warped out of the usual plate shape. Plain twined. 3 closely twined rows. 1 plain and 2 three strand twining, then warp ends turned and braided at rim.

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