Basketry. Warp and weft both of hazel shoots. Handle at top has "mourning" cord wrapping. Attached decoration of limpet and dentalium shells, glass beads.
Donor:
Charles Brockhoff and Lucia Brockhoff
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Karuk
Collector:
Mrs. Bringer
Collection date:
1910
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Dentaliidae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Cradles (children's beds)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions and 6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1973
Context of use:
Sold as tourist novelty.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 32 centimeters and width 14 centimeters
Loans:
S1976-1977 #27: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (April 18, 1976–November 18, 1976)