Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Yellow pattern is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Parosela. Black pattern is Sumac dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana). Slender zigzag band, bottom worn, edge torn.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Saboba Indian Reservation, Riverside County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Riverside; Saboba
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
June-July 1908
Materials:
Elderberry, Rush (material), and Sumac (wood)
Taxon:
Dalea, Rhus, Sambucus mexicana, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Plate baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "They [the objects] arrived in accessions 340-346, the data concerning which have been consolidated under accession No. 340. For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 18.