Basketry small fish trap; plain-twined (bam-tū’c). Warp is Willow (Salix). Upper left trap in group photo.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Coyote Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Coyote Valley
Culture or time period:
Eastern Pomo and Northern Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1901
Materials:
Willow bark
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Used in shallow waters to catch small fish.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 259.081 centimeters, depth 53.34 centimeters, and height 53.34 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4033 Published: AAE VII, 3, pl 27 Fig 3 Remarks: Photographed 13-488. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 53 Also published in Barrett, Samuel Alfred. Pomo Indian Basketry. Vol. 7. The University Press, 1908. Objects collected at the Coyote Valley Rancheria by Samuel Barrett may have been collected from Mary Louie, one of his consultants there. Mary Louie was Eastern Pomo, despite the fact that Coyote Valley Rancheria is in Northern Pomo territory. Other Barrett consultants from Coyote Valley include Topsy Pettis, Mollie Duncan, and Lizzie Jamison, all of whom were Northern Pomo.