Acorn soup dipper basket; twined. Warp and weft are possibly Sugar pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Two dotted rows of white overlay, single-faced, near top.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Common beargrass
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalog 1, p. 95" "9403-9420 were obtained from the same individual, an old blind woman. Most of the baskets in this lot, excepting 9405, 9414, and 9415, were made by herself. The simplicity of their ornamentation must therefore be attributed to the personal factor of her blindness.