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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20924, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca, black pattern is Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia). Bottle neck with sloping shoulders. Decorated in brown and black representing letters of the alphabet.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20939, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Brown and black patterns are Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Interrupted stitch. Design of 3 encircling bands with alternating black and white squares.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20941, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca. Neck coiled basket with interrupted stitch; coils alternating brown and white.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20956, described as Coiled basket with shoulder, apparently unfinished bottle-neck basket. "Butterfly design" in rectangles, arranged spirally in groups of four.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20937, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca. Dye is Pink floss (Ceiba speciosa). Red encircling decoration, of coarse weave.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20935, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca in wool, black pattern is Break fern (Sporobolus rigens). Bottle neck coiled basket with band of human figures in red and black, band of quail plumes and yarn.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20934, described as Large, bottle-neck, finely coiled jar basket with step pattern in 7 series in spiral order. On the shoulders of the basket between the step spirals are distributed 13 human figures in red and black, said to represent Jesus and the 12 Apostles. So called "Apostolic Basket". Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-21011, described as Very small coiled bottle-neck basket with broad mouth and all over design in red and white which consists chiefly of red diamonds in white zigzag field. Tag "Kitanemuk". Glued paper tag mostly removed from base. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket with bottle neck. Deergrass bundle foundation. Pinhole start. The basket has red Joshua tree root background wefts. The designs are tan willow. The design is stepped diamonds in a horizontal band, often referred to as a snake skin pattern. There are tan rim ticks. The base has orange, tan, and red stripes. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped weft fag ends. Plain wrapped rim, the coil ending is tapered. The wefts are not tightly spaced. The basket has a tag that states Kitanemuk, the materials and techniques agree with this attribution, but the design and the extensive use of Joshua tree root for the color red is a Kawaiisu tradition.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20938, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Yucca root. Red pattern is Yucca, White pattern is Willow (Salix).

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20942, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca, black pattern is Break fern (Sporobolus rigens). Neck coiled basket with red zigzag design above black design of oblique rows of dots. Shoulder ornamented with red yarn and quail crests.