Basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina).
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Drum Valley, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Drum Valley
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Materials:
Brake fern, Redbud, and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and diameter 21.4 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, P. 75.
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966)