Mush basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Hazel hoop. Large basket for acorn mush. Used, strengthened by rod below rim. Plain twining. Single rows of white overlay, rod lattice woven.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Common beargrass, Conifer root, Hazel shoots, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, Salix, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mush basket bowl and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
For acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 29 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4980, 15-8625" Published: "AAE v. 32, 1, pl. 57a" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 71" "9403-9420 were obtained from the same individual, an old blind woman. Most of the baskets in this lot, excepting 9405, 9414, and 9415, were made by herself. The simplicity of their ornamentation must therefore be attributed to the personal factor of her blindness.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #85: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (February 26, 1969–February 26, 1969)