Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum). Red color is Chain fern (Woodwardia spinulosa) dyed in Alder (Alnus rubra). Similar (to 1-16566?); "(small, deep, narrow at top)" added in pen. Globose. Mostly overlay, 2-faced, red and black on white ground. Dotted triangles on red/brown. White designs on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: top 3 rows, approximately 2.5 cm from start.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Antlers, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Antler
Culture or time period:
Northern Wintun and Wintu
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
November 1910
Materials:
Alder root, Chain fern, Common beargrass, Maidenhair fern, Pine (wood), and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Adiantum pedatum, Alnus rubra, Salix, Woodwardia spinulosa, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 16 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 69.