Mush basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
from the Chukchansi at Picyuna (Katanin) 5 m from coarse Gold, Madera county.
Culture or time period:
Chukchansi
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
January 8-17, 1904
Materials:
Brake fern, Redbud, and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Mush basket bowl
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 38.5 centimeters and height 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 77.