Carrying basket; open diagonal twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Rim is Willow and Soaproot juice (Chlorogalum pomeridianum). With leather-covered point, a reinforcing hoop at rim, and an application of soaproot juices on the surface serving to render the basket seed-tight. No decoration. Made of peeled shoots.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Rich Gulch, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Rich Gulch
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Mother of Masey
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Soaproot and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Chlorogalum pomeridianum and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carrying baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used in transporting harvested food products, such as seeds.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
53 centimeters and length 62 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: tuyuma - generic term for burden basket.