Basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Single rod foundation.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 53. S.A. Barrett field notes 1907, p. 108: Capt. Jim Wailaki, informant. Lit. Ladie basket [p. 11 of Notes; Little Lake, also probably meant here]