Canoe shaped basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge bark. Red designs of diagonally crossing zigzag bands.
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 bark and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex and Salix exigua Nutt. var. hindsiana
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 46.