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Physical Object / Hupa, Karok, or Yurok large lidded trinket basket

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Title
Hupa, Karok, or Yurok large lidded trinket basket
Creator
Hupa, Karok, or Yurok Indians, Creator
Contributor
Hupa, Karok, or Yurok Indians, Creator
Date Created and/or Issued
1800
1925
19th - early 20th century
Publication Information
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549; http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/incEngine/
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Collection
California Indian Baskets
Rights Information
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Description
Materials: bear grass; spruce or willow root; willow or hazel sticks; maidenhair fern; woodwardia fern dyed with alder root. Design: friendship
The fact this basket has a lid and handles may indicate it is a large trinket basket & probably made for sale. It is the size of the traditional cooking basket
Type
physical object
Format
Dia. 42 cm x H. 31 cm
Form/Genre
baskets
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb7199p4mw
X90.528A,B
Subject
Ethnic California
Place
California, Northwest

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