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Start Over Object class Bowl baskets Collection place The Americas Taxon Juncus
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-20919, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Skunkbush (Rhus trilobata). Black color is rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda. With diamond shaped pattern in brown bordered by black triangular pattern
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10609, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Brown pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda. Black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana).
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-20918, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Juncus. Black pattern is Juncus; dye is Suaeda.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14478, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Rhus. Pattern is yellow Juncus. Fide James C. Moreno 2/15/83: Flat basket, edge rather sharply upturned, faint narrow ornament in brown. The so called slight arrow design is there for the purpose of raising up the sides of the basket so the husks on dry acorns would rub off easier.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-20916, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Rush (Juncus). Black color is Rush dyed Suaeda.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14360, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Rush (Juncus), weft is Rhus.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-14497, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Juncus; weft is Rhus. Black pattern is in Juncus, dyed with Suaeda.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-20920, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Skunkbush (Rhus trilobata). Black color is Skunkbush dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus nigra). Yellow color is Rush (Juncus) dyed Parosela. Decorated with 3 angular figures of 3 lines each.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-9193, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Black pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda.Yellow pattern is dye made from Parosela.
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.

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