Made of basketry, twined, two-piece; natural color spruce root with four horizontal band maiden hair fern overlay decoration; lid, with two horizontal bands, held in place with white buckskin.
Donor:
Margaret Mathewson and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Maker or artist:
Helen Smoker
Collector:
Margaret Mathewson
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tobacco pouches
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Production date:
1989
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 5.3 centimeters and height 5.9 centimeters