Unfinished three-stick basket; coiled. Warp is Sedge root (Carex), weft is Sedge. Red pattern is Redbud bark (Cercis occidentalis).
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 Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1900
Materials:
Redbud and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex and Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: Photographed 13-484. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 49. 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.
Loans:
S1983-1984 #15: Lawrence E. Dawson/Lawrence E. Dawson (September 22, 1983–September 26, 1983)