Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca. Black pattern is Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia). Without prominent shoulder. Decoration is 2 bands rattlesnake design in red and black. On shoulder one band with black zigzag line.
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:
Devil's horn, Willow (wood), and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Proboscidea (plant), Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 7.625 inches and width 5.75 inches
Comment:
Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 478 pl. 191. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p 15.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #73: University of California, Santa Barbara (March 18, 1964–April 17, 1965) and S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967)