Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Plain twined. Two winding double bands in dark red. Globose shape. Dirty. All overlay except rim and base. Stepped rectangles of redbud on white ground. 2-faced overlay. 3-strand twining: one row, second from the top; 0 - 4 cm from start; approximately 6.5 - 7 cm from start.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Common beargrass, Pine (wood), Redbud, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Salix, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p, 69