Bowl basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). With 2 bands of double zigzag lines, the upper one in red and black, the lower in black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tule River, Tulare County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Tule River
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Salix, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 9.25 inches and width 5 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 253. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 477, pl. 189. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p 74.