Collection place: Southwestern California / Culture or time period: Southwest California tribes / Taxon: Rhus - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-4095, described as Semi-globular basket. One tag has: "Cahuilla att.". On the bottom of the basket "236" on a tag and "57682"(the last two numbers are difficult to read) in ink on the bottom. Description from AMNH Anthropology papers vol. 20: "Small basket of spherical Mission type: no neck or lid. Fig.96. Pattern, a block of two black parallelepipedons each with two diagonal bars; enclosed spaces white, background mottled buff Juncus." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. The basket has a deergrass bundle foundation. The wefts are sumac (Rhus) at the base turning into a tan juncus background on the sides with black dyed juncus designs. See above for design descriptions, there are two of these designs as well as a third similar design. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending with a single backstitch. Possibly but not definitively Cahuilla made.