Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quillina). Decoration: horizontal and vertical zigzag designs in black. Made of grass. Multiple rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches. Basket has been repaired at bottom and is badly damaged along rim and at bottom.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Angels Camp, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Angels Camp
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 29.5 centimeters and height 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "hima". Materials, techniques: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 39. Photo: 15-4879. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 43.