Tray basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Four-pointed design of black rhomboidal figures.
Donor:
American Museum of Natural History
Collection place:
Spanish Flat, El Dorado County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; El Dorado; Spanish Flat
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Carl Purdy
Collection date:
1900
Materials:
Redbud and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 45 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 34.