Coiled tray with 4 black designs on 4 sides of the basket. On catalog card "Made by Ramona". Three tags on rim "218". A tag with the catalog number. The third tag "Luiseño att.". Tags on bottom "No.218. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor Fresno Cal." Second tag "218". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled low broad basket bowl. Deergrass bundle foundation. Background wefts are sumac and the designs are black dyed juncus. The designs are two pairs of abstract isolated blocky motifs. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim and the coil ending is missing. Based on the location of collection, the materials and technical features the basket is attributed to Luiseño with a possibility of being Cahuilla.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Saboba Indian Reservation, Riverside County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Riverside; Saboba
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
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:
width 4 inches and length 15.5 inches
Comment:
Photo: 15-6397. Published: Publ. in Anthr. Papers, A.M.N.H. vol. 20, p. 182. Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 93"