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Start Over Materials Brake fern Taxon Sporobolus rigens Accession number Acc.216
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10174, described as Basket; Warp is Epicampes weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Wide-mouthed with flaring sides. Decoration: diagonally crossing bands of black "flying geese." Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Rim is damaged at several spots.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10289, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Globose in shape. Coiled with a grass bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches. Decoration: 7 concentric, horizontal bands of black triangles alternately pointing towards rim and downwards. Arrowhead motif.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10467, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Very small shallow with design in red and black.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10068, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quillina). Decoration: horizontal and vertical zigzag designs in black. Made of grass. Multiple rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches. Basket has been repaired at bottom and is badly damaged along rim and at bottom.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10211, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Small and shallow with a flaring body. Coiled on a bundle foundation, with a horizontal band of black zigzags. Non-interlocking stitches.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10443, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). With diamond shaped designs in black.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10184, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Pattern is mud-dyed Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Decoration: black rectangular figures arranged in vertical zigzag pattern. Coiled on grass bundle foundation, with non-interlocking stitches. Repaired on bottom.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10102, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens) and Maple (Acer macrophyllum), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring and slightly elliptical in shape, coiled. Decoration: Black designs very similar to the "standing up" design recorded by Barrett. Dark material is brackenfern root. 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10448, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Large new deep flaring basket with grass foundation and variously arranged triangular designs. Barret bought this basket from a man who thought it was made by a Chukchansi woman. To Dawson it looks like a newly made Northfork Mono basket with opposite work direction to Chukchansi habits.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10378, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Very old, very worn cooking basket with grass foundation and bands of zigzag designs in black and red. The design on this basket called "measuring worm" or "inch worm" (fide Mrs. Silva, July 1973). Mended.

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