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Woodpecker Crest Headring06.331.7918

This would be used on top of the head to steady carrying baskets.

Culture
Hupa and Yurok
Material
woodpecker scalp, hide and fibre
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Spoon05.588.7589

This spoon is carved from one piece of antler. The handle is carved into a square form on the end with a saw tooth edge. Then three narrow slits are cut out along the length of the handle until it reaches the bowl. The bowl is darkened in color.

Culture
Yurok
Material
antler
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Spoon05.588.7535

This spoon is carved from one piece of antler. The handle has a gracefully curving zig zag form with a rounded end with a hole in the center. The spoon's bowl is darkened in color.

Culture
Yurok
Material
antler
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Spoon05.588.7591

The spoon is carved from one piece of antler. The handle has a rounded end with a hole in the center. The sides of the handle are zig-zag cuts until it reached the bowl where a horizontal knob form is then the bowl. The bowl is darkened in color.

Culture
Yurok
Material
antler
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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BasketNb658

Basket with a conical shape and a rounded base. Open twined with multiple warps. Two sets of four leather strips are attached on one side.

Culture
Yurok
Material
root and skin
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Earrings1759/16 a-b

Woven basketry ear pendants with a metal ear hook attached at top. Bottom of earrings (1.2 cm) made of woven vertical grass strips of alternate colours of brown and light brown. Above grasses are pieces of light brown leather. At top of leather is a small loop of black and white beads. The beads are attached to a small piece of leather which is pierced by the metal hooks.

Culture
Yurok
Material
grass, glass ?, adhesive, metal, leather skin and dye
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketNb672

Tiny acorn-shaped light yellow-brown basketry sample basket. Main design consists of four equally spaced sets of three diagonal red-brown lines that have vertical dark brown ends. Above, there is a horizontal dark brown and red-brown band.

Culture
Yurok
Material
plant fibre and dye
Made in
Crescent City, California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Baby CarrierNb657

Open twined carrier, or cradle, with semi-circular cross-section, wedge-shaped at the bottom with a closed end while open at the top. Wrapped handle forms top structural support and is wrapped in sections of light yellow-brown bear grass. Dark brown bark(?) stick-like warps form a semi-circle out from the handle crossed by clusters of widely spaced twining. Wedge-shaped bottom is twined across the back and up the front. There is one twisted support across the top of the cradle.

Culture
Yurok
Material
root, bark ?, bear grass and wood
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stick BasketNb656

Open twined basket with a flat bottom and rounded sides. From the rim, there are five rows of plain twining followed by an open area of crossed open twining. At the junction of the sides, and onto the bottom, there is plain twining for seven rows, and then open twining to the centre.

Culture
Yurok
Material
root ?
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stick PlateNb655

Round, open twined plate curving up at the sides. Two rows of multi-ply 2 strand braided rim. Rigid stick-like warps are bound with evenly spaced rows of twined split root weft elements. Warps form a triangular pattern.

Culture
Yurok
Material
wood ? and root
Made in
California, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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