1-70545 (museum number (recataloged to)) and 37 (field number)
Object count:
1
Description:
This is 1-70545 based upon ledger description. Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Kawaiisu based on the use of the “butterfly stitch". Coiled on deer grass bundle foundation. Background is willow. 5 stepped designs in Joshua tree root. Pin hole start. Rim is broken. Rightward warp direction. Most baskets like this were made by the Butterbread Family of Kawaiisu. See Maurice Zigmond in Journal of Anthropology Winter 1978 Kawaiisu Basketry. Has number 1-7054 on paper tag and 37 on tin tag.
Collection place:
South Central California
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters and diameter 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
1-7054 previously in CSpace as transferred and deaccessioned with no specific information in the record linking papertrail, date or other activity information. see Acc.687 for exchange details 1-7054 noted as shell ring pendants of Lucapina crenulata and bead with bushing from Santa Barbara region.