Cooking basket; coiled. Vertical designs in red and black. Warp is epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is brake fern (Pteris quilina).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Central California; South Central
Culture or time period:
California tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Brake fern and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 44. Exchanged with Museo Prehistorico Ethnographica, L.P., Rome Italy