Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Redbud bark. Boiled. Diagonal triangle and rhomboid patterns, etc. in black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Butte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Butte
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Redbud, Redbud bark, 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:
diameter 47 centimeters and height 26.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 33.