Bread tray basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge( Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches; large and truncate-coned. Decoration: 4 horizontal bands of alternating solid black triangles.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mariposa, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1900-1901
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays, Coiled weaving, and Trays
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
An older woman had "used it for many years".
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 62 centimeters and height 30.5 centimeters
Comment:
Materials, techniques: For further information cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 42. Photo: 15-5971. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. Vol. 2, pl. 41.