Dipper basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Three-rod coiling with interlocking stitches, with no decoration, it has been heavily coated (with resin?).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Cold Spring, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa; Cold Spring/Chowchilla Creek
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as a dipper.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7 centimeters and diameter 22 centimeters
Comment:
Described by Samuel A. Barrett in 1906 as being "small & old". Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 77.