Hanging basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Feathered and beaded coiled basket with shell bead handle. Maker Clara Bill. Feathers include quail, mallard, woodpecker, and meadowlark. Beads include clamshell and glass trade beads.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Maker or artist:
Clara Bill
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1900-1901
Materials:
Sedge and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 6.5 centimeters and diameter 12.5 centimeters
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 47
Loans:
S1963-1964 #4: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (July 29, 1963–July 29, 1963) and S2020-2021 #2: Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society (September 16, 2021–June 3, 2021)