Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Skunkbush (Rhus trilobata). Black color Skunkbush dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus nigra).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Santa Ynez (CDP), Santa Barbara County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Santa Barbara; Santa Ynez
Culture or time period:
Chumash
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Elderberry and Skunkbush sumac
Taxon:
Rhus trilobata, Sambucus nigra, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Plate baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
depth 6.985 centimeters and diameter 43.18 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 93
Loans:
S2009-2010 #10: Thacher Gallery (Univ. of San Francisco) (August 2, 2010–December 20, 2010)