Openwork basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Flattish and triangular in form. Twined, with a reinforcing rim. No decoration.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Rich Gulch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Rich Gulch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots and Maple (wood)
Taxon:
Acer macrophyllum and Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
46.5 centimeters and length 49 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "tcama". Materials, techniques: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 37.