Coiled basket. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge root bark, Decorative design in blue, white, and yellow beads.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Sonoma; Alexander Valley
Culture or time period:
Wappo
Maker or artist:
Rosa
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
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 4 centimeters and circumference 28 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 61.
Loans:
S2020-2021 #2: Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society (September 16, 2021–June 3, 2021)