Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Pattern is mud-dyed Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Decoration: black rectangular figures arranged in vertical zigzag pattern. Coiled on grass bundle foundation, with non-interlocking stitches. Repaired on bottom.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Chicken Ranch, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Chicken Ranch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge root
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
No information.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 16 centimeters and diameter 30.2 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: pulakka - generic term for basket type. Photo: 15-5972. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v.2, pl 46. Remarks: The pattern on this basket is unusual. For materials, cf. Supp. Cat. 1, p. 39.