Mortar basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Four complex horizontal bands in red.
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
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1900-1901
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 50
Loans:
S1970-1971 #67: Urban Studies Center (January 21, 1971–January 22, 1971), S1970-1971 #97: Urban Studies Center/Judith Stephens (March 9, 1971–May 28, 1971), S1971-1972 #53: UC Berkeley Extension/Daphne D. Stern (November 18, 1971–November 18, 1971), S1973-1974 #113: UC Berkeley Extension/Charles M. Slaymaker (June 21, 1974–June 24, 1974), S1973-1974 #18: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (September 26, 1973–March 19, 1974), S1976-1977 #89: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District (June 23, 1977–September 16, 1977), and S1981-1982 #43: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (February 19, 1982–April 13, 1982)