Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge bark. Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). 3 strand braiding.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Coyote Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Coyote Valley
Culture or time period:
Eastern Pomo
Maker or artist:
Mary Louie
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
June 1904
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 47. Note: Objects collected at the Coyote Valley Rancheria by Samuel Barrett may have been collected from Mary Louie, one of his consultants there. Mary Louie was Eastern Pomo, despite the fact that Coyote Valley Rancheria is in Northern Pomo territory. Other Barrett consultants from Coyote Valley include Topsy Pettis, Mollie Duncan, and Lizzie Jamison, all of whom were Northern Pomo.