Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Brown and black patterns are Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Interrupted stitch. Design of 3 encircling bands with alternating black and white squares.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kelso Valley, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Kelso Valley
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Brake fern and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Pteris quilina, Salix, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 8.125 inches and width 6.25 inches
Comment:
Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 481 pl. 196. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.