Receptacle basket; twined. Warp is unpeeled Willow (Salix), weft is Pine (Pinus). Small and conical in shape. A cloth strap attached to the rim attests to its having been hung when in use. Coarse, open diagonal twine, with 3 rows of plain twine beneath the rim. The bark on the materials is both stripped and unstripped (warp) and, in the case of the weft material, stripped until near the rim, where reddish-colored bark provides a contrast with the light-colored (and stripped) weft.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Pine (wood) and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Pinus and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Hung on the wall as a receptacle for awls and other small implements and trinkets.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 13.5 centimeters and height 22 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "owoyu". For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 40. Photo: 15-9113. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 53.