Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Shallow with flaring sides; coiled. Decoration: much faded red geometrical design. 3-rod coiling with stitches split on the interior. Basket's edge shows sign of extensive wear.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Mary Carter
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18.3 centimeters and height 6 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "pulissa" - type of basket; "sulpanu" - foundation material. For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 40.