Coiled basket bowl, hourglass patterns in red and black. Per Ralph Shanks: Used basket, rim missing, native repairs on bottom. Grass bundle foundation, rightward warp direction. Butterfly design (pattern) in black outline and red interior. Background weft is sedge root. Black is bracken fern root. Red is probably yucca root.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Culture or time period:
Southern Valley Yokuts
Collector:
Clinton Hart Merriam
Collection date:
1902
Taxon:
Cladium
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Per C.H. Merriam: South Fork, Kern or Tule River. Contains cladium, cercis and Pteridium. Per Ralph Shanks: Used basket, rim missing, native repairs on bottom. Grass bundle foundation, rightward warp direction. Butterfly design (pattern) in black outline and red interior. Background weft is sedge root. Black is bracken fern root. Red is probably yucca root.