Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Small and shallow with a flaring body. Coiled on a bundle foundation, with a horizontal band of black zigzags. Non-interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Coulterville, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Coulterville
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok and Yokuts
Collector:
Daughters of Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Coleman, and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
September 9, 1906
Materials:
Brake fern and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7.8 centimeters and diameter 19.8 centimeters
Comment:
In 1906, Samuel A. Barrett described this basket as being "new". For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 38.