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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-20910, described as Coiled basketry bowl with black and brown patterns, 8 groups of figures. On catalog card "Made of [by] Ramona". Tags on rim "Luiseño" and a second tag "219". On bottom of basket "No.219. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor Fresno Cal." and a second tag "219". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. Deergrass bundle foundation. Background wefts are sumac and the designs are brown and black dyed juncus. The designs are three double diamonds and five sets of paired vertical triangles, two of which have brown filling the designs. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim and the coil ending is tapered with three herringbone stitches. Based on the location of collection, the materials and technical features the basket is attributed to Luiseño with a possibility of being Cahuilla. Hairs are woven into basket near the triangles in the interior. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Flat bowl basket, accession number 1-20909, described as Coiled tray with 4 black designs on 4 sides of the basket. On catalog card "Made by Ramona". Three tags on rim "218". A tag with the catalog number. The third tag "Luiseño att.". Tags on bottom "No.218. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor Fresno Cal." Second tag "218". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled low broad basket bowl. Deergrass bundle foundation. Background wefts are sumac and the designs are black dyed juncus. The designs are two pairs of abstract isolated blocky motifs. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim and the coil ending is missing. Based on the location of collection, the materials and technical features the basket is attributed to Luiseño with a possibility of being Cahuilla.