Rather high bottle neck coiled basket with 6 triple step designs in spiral fashion. Paper tag: "Kitanemuk" and the metal tag "299". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket with bottle neck and shoulder. Deergrass bundle foundation. Peeled shoot, probably willow or sumac, background wefts. Black devil's claw or bracken fern root designs. The design is six triple step designs in spiral fashion emanating from a circle at the base. Exterior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped weft fag ends. Plain wrapped rim, the coil ending is tapered. The basket has a tag that states Kitanemuk, the materials and techniques agree with this attribution, but could also indicate neighboring tribes.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
Kitanemuk
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Jar baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p 94".