Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Flattish. Decoration: faint horizontal red band beneath the rim; in redbud. Single rod coiling, with interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1903
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7 centimeters and diameter 22 centimeters
Comment:
Described as having been rather old at time of purchase. Materials, techniques: For further information, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 39.