Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Yucca. Dark red oblique pattern of parallelograms placed one above the other, 4 double and 1 single row. Old and badly worn.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Sedge and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Salix, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 17.5 inches and width 10 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 128. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 36.