Bowl basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Yucca. White pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Round, flat base, with 2 encircling bands enclosing butterfly pattern in black, white and red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1893-1908
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 22.8 centimeters and height 10 centimeters
Loans:
S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967) and S1976-1977 #48: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (February 12, 1977–February 12, 1977)