Basketry material. Pteris aquilina/bracken fern root. Color was artificially deepened to black.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
1917
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketmaking supplies
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 16, 1975
Context of use:
Black patterns in baskets.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 6 centimeters
Comment:
See note in accession envelope
Loans:
S1978-1979 #24: San Jose Museum of Art (October 24, 1978–January 19, 1979) and S1979-1980 #55: California Academy of Sciences (April 4, 1980–December 19, 1981)