Unfinished round single rod basket; coiled. Warp is Sedge root (Carex), weft is Sedge. Red pattern is Redbud bark (Cercis occidentalis).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Pinoleville, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Pinoleville
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Redbud and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex and Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photographed 13-484. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 49 May be double assigned number, conflicting descriptions for foundation on two separate catalog cards, the basket start that was found is one stick foundation.