Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Pine root (Pinus). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Complex designs in dark red. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1880-1902
Materials:
Brake fern, Pine root, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Pinus, Pteris quilina, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 21.5 centimeters and diameter 26 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p.44.