Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Sedge bark. With red and black feathers and shell beads. Crossing black feathers and shell beads. Crossing zigzag lines in black.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Sonoma; Sebastopol
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Maker or artist:
Clara Bill
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
January 1900
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 46.