Extremely large baskets were useful for storing plant materials that would later be processed into food. Lids on these storage baskets protected the materials inside from moisture and insects. This basket is typical of many Hupa baskets, with repetitive geometric motifs divided into horizontal registers encircling the entire basket.

• Collection History Provenance

  The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

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• Culture Hupa
• Material hazel wood, conifer root, woodwardia fern, maidenhair fern
• Measurements height 21.0 in, diameter 18.0 in (overall)

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• Creator Hupa artist

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• Creation Date during 1915

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• Categories California; Great Basin; Baskets