Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud bark. Red lightning-like pattern.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Santa Barbara County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Santa Barbara
Culture or time period:
Chumash
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod, E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection, and Jewett Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Redbud, Redbud bark, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Plate baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 11 inches and width 1.75 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 57" "From Jewett Collection. Called by McLeod "Santa Barbara Mission tray." Illustrated in Jewett Collection. Catalogue 13." In Pan Pacific Exposition catalog (in accession file) number 88 was misidentified as Maidu. In Jewlett book 88 is identified as made by "San Gabriel Indians