Bowl basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud bark. Flat, with reddish black designs of triangles and parallelograms.
Donor:
American Museum of Natural History
Collection place:
Spanish Flat, El Dorado County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; El Dorado; Spanish Flat
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
1900
Materials:
Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 47.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 33.