Small. Round, flat base, slightly flaring sides rising to flat shoulder, constricted neck "bottleneck", complex zigzag geometric design in red and black on natural ground, red wool yarn fringe combined with quail plume feathers around edge of shoulder, some fringe and feathers missing in some areas. Redbud, bracken fern root, cladian sedge. Coiled.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Central California; South Central
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 6.7 centimeters and diameter 15.5 centimeters