Mortar basket; worn and grimy from use. Hoop lashed with buckskin thong to inside of rim. 2-faced overlay; black and white dotted horizontal lines near top (2). Mainly plain twining. 3 strand twining from bottom about 6 cm up; then a hoop lattice- twined to outside; then 2 rows of 3-strand twining, one row plain twining, and one more row of 3-strand twining; 2 rows of 3-strand twining about 10 cm down from the rim. Two tags: "Wailaki".
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Wailaki, Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Mortar basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 14 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-8622" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 59