Bundle of flag leaves and wild wheat-like grass. Native name and meaning: "koiha" - flag-like material; "tiela" - the wheat-like green material. The "koiha" is used on the inside of a basket and the "tiela" is used on the outside to make "pretty looking basket". Used as foundation material for 1-10329 (basket start).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Mariposa, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Mariposa
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as foundation material for 1-10329 (basket start).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 4 centimeters and length 77 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "koiha" - flag-like material; "tiela" - the wheat-like green material. The "koiha" is used on the inside of a basket and the "tiela" is used on the outside to make "pretty looking basket" - e.g. 1-10329.