Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Black pattern is Brake fern (Woodwardia spinulosa). 3 bands of red broken by zigzag white lines.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tejon, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Tejon
Culture or time period:
Kitanemuk
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Brake fern and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Woodwardia spinulosa
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 4.75 inches and width 3.625 inches
Comment:
Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 477 pl. 190. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p 15.