Shallow flaring coiled basket, apparently unfinished, with 2 concentric bands of red at base and 2 concentric zigzag bands of black rectangles. Tag "Kitanemuk". Glued on paper tag "217 Kern". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl. Deergrass bundle foundation. Pinhole start. The basket has willow background wefts. The designs are in black bracken fern root and red Joshua tree root. The design includes two horizontal bands of stepped rectangles and two red bands at the base, and three red rectangles on the rim. The basket has an interior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped weft fag ends. Plain wrapped rim, the coil ending is broken. The basket has a tag that states Kitanemuk, the materials and techniques agree with this attribution, but could also indicate neighboring tribes such as Kawaiisu or Tubatulabal.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
South Central Californian tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p 94".