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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10613, described as Very large old deep coiled basket. "Purchased from an old Indian woman at Capistrano, but made at Aguida." Comment may have meant made by Aguida, there are several women by the name of Aguida that lived a San Juan Capistrano, including one photographed by Grace Nicholson in the book "In and Out of the Old Missions of California: An Historical and Pictorial Account of the Franciscan Missions" by George Wharton James on page 66 plate XIVa. Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Epicampes is Sumac (Rhus). Black pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda. Yellow dye is derived from Parosela.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-9194, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Brown pattern is Juncus dyed in Suaeda
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-20907, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rush (Juncus). Black color is Rush dyed in Suaeda. With black zigzag encircling pattern, edges broken.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-10616, described as Basket hat; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Black pattern is Juncus, dyed with Suaeda.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-9197, described as Cap basket; coiled. Warp is Agave (Agave deserti) and Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Black pattern is Juncus, dyed witrh Suaeda.
Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-11122, described as Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Rush (Juncus) and Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rush and Sumac (Rhus). Black pattern is Rush dyed in Suaeda.

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