Trinket basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Oblong-shaped with attached cloth strap, executed in open diagonal twine technique. No decoration.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Sheep Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Limpy
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Trinket basket. Hung up as a receptacle for awls and other small implements and trinkets.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 20 centimeters and diameter 9.5 centimeters
Comment:
Materials: Cf. also Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 41. Native name and meaning: "tcimkulu". Samuel A. Barrett remarks that the Paiute also make this kind of basket.