Acorn cooking basket
- Museum number:
- 1-1789
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001789
- Alternate number:
- 373 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Acorn cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Mouth of Salmon River, Del Norte County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Siskiyou; Mouth of Salmon River
- Culture or time period:
- Karuk
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
- Taxon:
- Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Mush boiling basket and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 19.2 centimeters and height 8.7 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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