Sub-globular shape, undecorated, in plain twining techniques. Plain twined warp and weft of tule rushes (Scirpus lacustris).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Clear Lake, Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake; Clear Lake
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Tule (grass material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 23 centimeters and height 12.5 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: "A similar basket, #5505 at the State Indian Museum, is called a men's basket from the Pomo of Clear Lake, Lake County. Another one, also very similar and documented as Pomo, from Upper Lake, is in the Smithsonian collections. Made by men.