Basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud wood. Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Large flat bottomed bowl-shaped coiled basket. Black design of diagonal joined rhomboids. Old, bottom torn.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 45.