27 (original number) and TB-85 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Ledger: Coiled basket, bowl shape. Yokuts or Shoshonian design in Yucca root and Matynia. This is 1-70545 based upon ledger description. Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Kawaiisu based on the use of the “butterfly stitch". Coiled on deer grass bundle foundation. Background is willow. 5 stepped designs in Joshua tree root. Pin hole start. Rim is broken. Rightward warp direction. Most baskets like this were made by the Butterbread Family of Kawaiisu. See Maurice Zigmond in Journal of Anthropology Winter 1978 Kawaiisu Basketry. Has number 1-7054 on paper tag and 27 on tin tag.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Treasure baskets
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 7 inches and height 4 inches
Comment:
Had lost number 2000-2023, found in TB baskets. Misattributed to Chumash on Catalog card, the description on card does not match this basket. Ledger description matches. Currently labeled as TB-85.