Jar basket
- Museum number:
- 1-20963
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010020963
- Accession number:
- Acc.511
- Description:
- Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Small, bottle-neck, coiled. Diamond pattern in brown and pink (flicker quills).
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- South fork San Joaquin, Fresno County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; San Joaquin River; South fork, San Joaquin River
- Culture or time period:
- Western Mono
- Collector:
- Edwin Lincoln McLeod, E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection, and Robert Johnston
- Collection date:
- 1885-1908
- Materials:
- Brake fern and Sedge
- Taxon:
- Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Coiled weaving and Jar baskets
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1916
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- width 2.5 inches and length 5 inches
- Comment:
- Photo: 15-6080. Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 44
- Images:
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