Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is possibly Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is red. 3-rod coiling with intelocking stitches (many are split on interior face).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Six Mile, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Six Mile
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Hazel shoots and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in serving and cooking food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12 centimeters and diameter 33 centimeters
Comment:
Materials, techniques: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 38.