Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red dye is Chain fern (Woodwardia spinulosa) in alder (Alnus rubra). Somewhat globular upper portion overlaid in white with red alder design. Some 3-strand twining on bottom.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Baird (historic place), Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Baird
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber and John Campbell Merriam
Collection date:
1903
Materials:
Alder root, Chain fern, Common beargrass, Pine (wood), and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Alnus rubra, Salix, Woodwardia spinulosa, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17 centimeters and height 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 68