Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud. Flat bottomed. Zigzag and diamond pattern bands in red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Basin, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Shoshone and Washoe
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Redbud and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex and Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 63.