Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca. Brown dye is Willow. 3 bands enclosing short 3-step pattern in vertical order, steps in red bordered laterally by black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tejon, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Tejon
Culture or time period:
Kitanemuk
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Willow (wood) and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
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:
length 11.75 inches and width 5.5 inches
Comment:
Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 476 pl 188. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p 15.