Small coiled basket with decoration of red rectangles arranged in pairs with greatest length vertical. Tag "Kitanemuk". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl. Pinhole starting knot. Deergrass bundle foundation. Background wefts are probably willow and the design wefts are Joshua tree root. The design includes downward pointing rectangles at the rim, and a spiral at the base. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. Plain wrapped rim with a slightly 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 3.9 centimeters and diameter 9.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p 94".