Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Appears to use single-rod coiling technique (?) with interlocking stitches. Decoration: two thin black bands encircling the basket horizontally.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Avery, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Avery
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Brake fern, Redbud, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Salix
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 16.5 centimeters and height 5.3 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "pulisa"; design name - "lunata"; materials - "sapu" and "sakalu".