Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-14527
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Alternate number:
3162 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.353
Description:
Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Donor:
American Museum of Natural History
Collection place:
Scott Valley, Siskiyou County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Siskiyou; Scott Valley
Culture or time period:
Shasta
Collector:
Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Dipper basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 55
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14527, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14527, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14527, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14527, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

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