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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-14358, described as Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Yellow pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Parosela. Black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana).
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.
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 1-10612, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens) and Rush (Juncus). Weft is Sumac (Rhus). Yellow pattern is Rush dyed in Parosela, black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana).
Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-14357, described as Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Yellow pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Parosela. Black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana). Slender zigzag band, bottom worn, edge torn.

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