Basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three stick basket with black design called yutappa, said to mean “hanging down”.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Rail Road Flat, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Railroad Flat
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Matty Jim
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern, Redbud, Weft [reassign], and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: pulisa (name for basket type); yutappa (name for design - said to mean "hanging down"). Photo: 15-4879. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 32.
Loans:
S1970-1971 #132: California State University, East Bay/Vera Mae Frederickson (May 17, 1971–April 10, 1972), S1973-1974 #53: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (January 22, 1974–January 26, 1974), S1983-1984 #15: Lawrence E. Dawson/Lawrence E. Dawson (September 22, 1983–September 26, 1983), and S1999-2000 #3: Monterey Museum of Art (September 13, 1999–May 31, 2000)