Spaced, plain-twined bowl basket. Frail and shallow. 4 vertical stripes in black. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket bowl. The wefts are conifer root. The light colored warps are maybe hazel, the dark warps are unknown. Crossed warp start with some closed plain twining at the base. On the sides there is openwork plain twining. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The design is four vertical dark lines made up of three to four dark warps each. The rim has three rows of plain twining with the warps trimmed. The design pattern is known from the Wiyot, but without further evidence this basket is attributed to Northwestern California.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
C. Purdy, John Preston Stanley, and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1900-1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7.3 centimeters and diameter 21 centimeters