Bowl basket; truncate-cone coiled. Warp is peeled Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Two horizontal zigzag bands in red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mono Lake, Mono County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Southern California; Mono Lake
Culture or time period:
Eastern Mono
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1880-1902
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.3 centimeters and diameter 19.4 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 52.