Start of coarse one stick basket showing particularly the sort of coil used at beginning. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketmaking supplies
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 37.