Collection place: Southern California / Accession number: Acc.838 / Function: 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place Southern California Accession number Acc.838 Function 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers

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.