Jar basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown patter ins Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Yucca. With 3 bands of black, enclosing diamond design in red and white; 2 bands on side of basket, one on shoulder. Shoulder fringed with red worsted and quail crests.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Brake fern, Sedge, and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jar baskets and Twined weaving
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 9.2 centimeters and height 8.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry, p 477 pl. 189. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1 p 74.