Poorly made small flaring coiled basket with red and black encircling decorations. Tag "Kitanemuk". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaired coiled basket bowl. Deergrass bundle foundation. Pinhole starting knot. Background wefts are probably willow and the design wefts are Joshua tree root. The design is indistinct but includes rectangles scattered throughout the basket and a spiral at the bottom. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. Plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Could be from the Kitanemuk or Kawaiisu.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
Kitanemuk
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:
height 3.7 centimeters and diameter 10.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p 94".