Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). With recurving top. Triple zigzag diagonal stripes in black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10.8 centimeters and diameter 15 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 73.