Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum). Similar (to 1-16565?); smaller, with semi-circular design; "(small, deep, narrow at top)" added in pen. Globular shape; twined. Very grimy from use. 2-faced overlay, diagonal bands of black and white. 3-strand twining: top row, also 3 areas on bottom. The rest is plain twined.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Salt Creek, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Salt Creek
Culture or time period:
Northern Wintun and Wintu
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
November 1910
Materials:
Common beargrass, Maidenhair fern, Pine (wood), and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Adiantum pedatum, Salix, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 69.