Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge bark. Recurved top. Double black bands forming diamond patterns.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Maker or artist:
Clara Bill
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
March 1900
Materials:
Sedge and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: yes. For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 48.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #32: Highlands Elementary School/Zelda Bellichi (November 11, 1964–November 30, 1964) and S1967-1968 #97: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968)