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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 1-10611, described as Old hemispherical dark colored pottery bowl with broad flaring basketry rim, coiled, (originally) attached with asphalt. Pottery cover is coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana).

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10610, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Rhus. Shallow flaring old coiled basket with bottom completely worn away and patched with rawhide.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10613, described as Very large old deep coiled basket. "Purchased from an old Indian woman at Capistrano, but made at Aguida." Comment may have meant made by Aguida, there are several women by the name of Aguida that lived a San Juan Capistrano, including one photographed by Grace Nicholson in the book "In and Out of the Old Missions of California: An Historical and Pictorial Account of the Franciscan Missions" by George Wharton James on page 66 plate XIVa. Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Epicampes is Sumac (Rhus). Black pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda. Yellow dye is derived from Parosela.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10612, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens) and Rush (Juncus). Weft is Sumac (Rhus). Yellow pattern is Rush dyed in Parosela, black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana).