Small bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge bark. Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). With black and red beads. Diamond spaces bounded by red lines.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Dick Hall's Ranch, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Sonoma; Dick Halls Ranch
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Maker or artist:
Clara Bill
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
March 1900
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets 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. 48.