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Start Over Culture or time period Kawaiisu Accession number Acc.838
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70546, described as Coiled, bucket shaped. Black, reddish brown and orange designs. Buff colored ground is sumac shoot, reddish brown is Joshua tree root. Black is devil's-claw pod, orange is flicker feather quills.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70545, described as Ledger: Coiled basket, bowl shape. Yokuts or Shoshonian design in Yucca root and Matynia. This is 1-70545 based upon ledger description. Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Kawaiisu based on the use of the “butterfly stitch". Coiled on deer grass bundle foundation. Background is willow. 5 stepped designs in Joshua tree root. Pin hole start. Rim is broken. Rightward warp direction. Most baskets like this were made by the Butterbread Family of Kawaiisu. See Maurice Zigmond in Journal of Anthropology Winter 1978 Kawaiisu Basketry. Has number 1-7054 on paper tag and 27 on tin tag.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70294, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tags: "1.Tulari NTTT=Levy Grass Yucca Cat-Claw" on back "Kern Co. Type". Second tag "Tulari #1 N.T.T.T." on back "Tulari #1 N.T.T.T". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl. Grass bundle foundation. Weft designs are red Joshua Tree root outlined in black, probably bracken fern root but possibly cats claw. The background wefts are willow. The designs include five expanding zigzags radiating out from a circle at the base, terminating at another black circle four rows below the rim. Between each zigzag is a double diamond connected by a line. At the rim there are nine sets of three/four rim ticks. The basket has a pinhole start. It has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are clipped. The wefts are fine and even. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. Based on the techniques and materials this basket is either Kawaiisu or Tubatulabal.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70297, described as Coiled, bowl shape.

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