Mat; twined. Warp is Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is string. Old, much used, made of "O" tule.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Santa Rosa Rancheria, Kings County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Yokut
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Materials:
Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Mats of this kind were used as sleeping mats and also to eat on. They were never used as covers for houses, the roof mats being made of a different type of (triangular) tule.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Native name: "tinii". Remarks: See 1-10719 and 10734. For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, P. 75.