Detail View: The AMICA Library: Basket
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AMICA ID:
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BCM_.41.191.16
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AMICA Library Year:
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2003
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Description:
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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.
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Creator Nationality:
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Native American
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Karok, California
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Title:
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Basket
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View:
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Full view
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Creation Date:
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Late 19th century - early 20th century
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Creation Start Date:
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1850
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Creation End Date:
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1950
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Materials and Techniques:
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Splint (hazel), pine root, grass
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Classification Term:
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Container
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Classification Term:
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Decorative and Utilitarian Objects
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Creation Place:
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California, United States
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Dimensions:
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Height: 2 1/2"; diameter: 4 1/2"
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AMICA Contributor:
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Brooklyn Children's Museum
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Owner Location:
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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41.191.16
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Miss Ethelyn McKinney, 1941
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Rights:
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Context:
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Small bowl for meal mush, usually acorn porridge. Larger basket bowls were for cooking. Smaller bowls were by the Karok and Hupa.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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BCM_.41-191-16.tif
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