Storage basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge root (Carex) and Pine (Pinus). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Hoop is Willow, bound with Grape (Vitus californica). Twined weave "bamtuc." Red decorative pattern in four bands. Second origin. no. 309.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod, E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection, and J. H. Mallett Jr.
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Grape root, Pine (wood), Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, Pinus, Salix, and Vitis californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 17.75 inches and length 19.625 inches
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 50
Loans:
S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975) and S1983-1984 #14: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Anderson (Hupa) (September 19, 1983–September 26, 1983)