Carrying basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Skunkbush (Rhus trilobata). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Yucca. 2 encircling bands of red zigzag lines bordered by black, a third band of oblique lines in black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
Shoshone
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Brake fern, Skunkbush sumac, Willow (wood), and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Pteris quilina, Rhus trilobata, Salix, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carrying baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 23 inches and length 27 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p. 94