Feather-covered, coiled basket with green (mallard), yellow (meadow lark), red (woodpecker) feathers and black quail crests, clam shell beads on cotton strings ending in abalone bangles. Sedge wefts with probable willow warps.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
Mouth of Noyo River, Noyo River, Mendocino County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Mouth of Noyo River
Culture or time period:
Mitoám Kai Pomo
Maker or artist:
Lucy Cooper
Collector:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection date:
1925
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (string), Feather (material) (decoration), Sedge root (weft), Shell (animal material) (decoration), and Willow (wood) (warp, assumed warp is willow, not confirmed.)
Taxon:
Anas platyrhynchos, Callipepla californica, Carex barbarae, Dryocopus pileatus, Gossypium hirsutum, Haliotis, Salix, Saxidomus nutalli, and Sturnella neglecta