Basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitching; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 3 dark red horizontal bands.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Bear Creek, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Bear Creek
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 23.5 centimeters and diameter 37.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "huli" - basket type; "paiwa" - Ceanothus cuneatus; "tapatapa" - redbud. Photo: 15-4970. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 47.