Basket; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Alteration of peeled and unpeeled warp. Small and flattish with open diagonal twining. No decoration.
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
Collector:
Captain McKenzie and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
5 centimeters and 23 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: tcama. For materials, cf. Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 39. Published: Milw. Pub. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 52.