Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Dirty and a little worn from use. Very flexible. Cylindrical shape. Mostly plain twined. 3- strand twined for approximately 4 cm radius from start and two rows at about 5 cm from start. White overlay design, 2-faced; diagonally connected pairs of parallelograms in diagonal rows. Thin horizontal stripes.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Baird (historic place), Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Baird
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber and John Campbell Merriam
Collection date:
1903
Materials:
Common beargrass, Pine (wood), and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
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)
Dimensions:
height 23 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-2552" Published: "AAE, II, 4, Pl 21, Fig 1" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 70