Bowl basket; coiled. Warp and weft are redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Coiled, with black tree design, edge turned in.
Donor:
Edward W. Gifford and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Bishop, Inyo County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Inyo; Bishop
Culture or time period:
Eastern Mono
Collector:
Edward W. Gifford
Collection date:
December 1915
Materials:
Brake fern and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Pteris quilina
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters and diameter 20.4 centimeters
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 44.