COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
BCM_.41.191.16
AMICA Library Year:
2003
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Description:
Small round basket bowl of plaint twining; wefts moving to left; warps of hazel twig, weft of spruce root; wefts dyed red-brown by red alder root; blonde squaw grass overlay band below rim with black zigzag pattern; splint rim or technique of completing rim unknown as missing - weft usually sewn over splint.
Creator Nationality:
Native American
Creator Name-CRT:
Karok, California
Title:
Basket
View:
Full view
Creation Date:
Late 19th century - early 20th century
Creation Start Date:
1850
Creation End Date:
1950
Materials and Techniques:
Splint (hazel), pine root, grass
Classification Term:
Container
Classification Term:
Decorative and Utilitarian Objects
Creation Place:
California, United States
Dimensions:
Height: 2 1/2"; diameter: 4 1/2"
AMICA Contributor:
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Owner Location:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
ID Number:
41.191.16
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Ethelyn McKinney, 1941
Context:
Small bowl for meal mush, usually acorn porridge. Larger basket bowls were for cooking. Smaller bowls were by the Karok and Hupa.
Related Image Identifier Link:
BCM_.41-191-16.tif
