Large flaring coiled basketry bowl with ascending zigzag or step design in 3 encircling bands. Metal tag "138". Paper hang tag “Kitanemuk". "No. 138. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor Fresno Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking or storage basket. The foundation is grass bundle. The tan wefts are willow and the red is Joshua tree root. The design is three horizontal bands of vertical zigzags. The basket has a pinhole start. Interior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are clipped. The rim is plain wrapped, in poor condition, with a tapered coil ending. The basket is Kawaiisu, Tubatulabal, or Kitanemuk.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
South Central Californian tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Plant material and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 18.75 inches and width 8.25 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p 94".