Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge root. Complex zigzag design in black, forming trefoil pattern, with black designs in bullrush root material on a ground of sedge root. Series of tick marks on rim near coil ending.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Sedge and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Context of use:
Mush boiling basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13.7 centimeters and diameter 27.9 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 44.