Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Dirty and worn from usage. Cylindrical shape. Very flexible. White 2-faced overlay designs; two thin stripes at top; horizontal bands, two of connected triangles and two of connected diamonds; with a repeating angled motif between the 2 band areas. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twined for approximately 9 cm radius from start, and two rows at approximately 12 cm from start.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Baird (historic place), Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Baird
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber and John Campbell Merriam
Collection date:
1903
Materials:
Common beargrass, Pine (wood), and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Mush boiler.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: "15-2571" Published: "AAE, II, 4, Pl 21, Fig 5 AAE, II, 4, p 135, Figs 215, 216, 222" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 70