Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca, black pattern is Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia). 2 encircling zigzag lines of black below a brown encircling band with white diamond pattern.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kelso Valley, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Kelso Valley
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Maker or artist:
Mrs. Butterbread
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Devil's horn
Taxon:
Proboscidea (plant), Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.8 centimeters and diameter 15.6 centimeters
Comment:
Additional original numer: 72. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 284, pl. 40. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.