Mush basket; coiled. Warp is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis), weft is Redbud. Black pattern is mud-dyed Brake fern (Pteris quilina). With three black bands.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Lake Tahoe, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Lake Tahoe
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Brake fern, Mud, and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Pteris quilina
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Mush basket bowl
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 63.