Water bottle basket; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Pitched with One Leaf Pine (Pinus monophylla). 2 loops on each side of bottle with carrying cord attached.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Piute Mountain, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Piute Mountain
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Single-leaf pinyon and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Pinus monophylla and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 8.5 inches and width 10.5 inches
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.