Seed beater basket; warp and weft are Willow (Salix) or Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Turned warp.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Alpine County, California
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Seed beaters
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 63.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1967-1968 #131: Department of Anthropology (SF State University) (April 30, 1968–May 15, 1968), and S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)