Plate basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteridium aquilinum). 1 circular band with checker design in black.
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:
Pteridium aquilinum, Salix, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Plate baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
14.75 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 155. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.