Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-12636
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012636
Alternate number:
1891 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
Description:
Cooking basket (kala); diagonally twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Nettle (Urtica) string rim. Small, very closely woven, with figure of single oblique lines close to bottom.
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:
Mud, Nettle (fiber), and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Schoenoplectus acutus and Urtica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, Page 23
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12636, described as Cooking basket (kala); diagonally twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Nettle (Urtica) string rim. Small, very closely woven, with figure of single oblique lines close to bottom.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12636, described as Cooking basket (kala); diagonally twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Nettle (Urtica) string rim. Small, very closely woven, with figure of single oblique lines close to bottom.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12636, described as Cooking basket (kala); diagonally twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Nettle (Urtica) string rim. Small, very closely woven, with figure of single oblique lines close to bottom.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12636, described as Cooking basket (kala); diagonally twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). Brown color is mud-dyed Tule skin. Nettle (Urtica) string rim. Small, very closely woven, with figure of single oblique lines close to bottom.

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