Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca in wool, black pattern is Break fern (Sporobolus rigens). Bottle neck coiled basket with band of human figures in red and black, band of quail plumes and yarn.
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, Willow (wood), Wool (hair material), and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Pteridium aquilinum, Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 7.875 inches and width 5.625 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 166. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #4: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (July 29, 1963–July 29, 1963)