Very small coiled bottle-neck basket with broad mouth and all over design in red and white which consists chiefly of red diamonds in white zigzag field. Tag "Kitanemuk". Glued paper tag mostly removed from base. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket with bottle neck. Deergrass bundle foundation. Pinhole start. The basket has red Joshua tree root background wefts. The designs are tan willow. The design is stepped diamonds in a horizontal band, often referred to as a snake skin pattern. There are tan rim ticks. The base has orange, tan, and red stripes. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped weft fag ends. Plain wrapped rim, the coil ending is tapered. The wefts are not tightly spaced. The basket has a tag that states Kitanemuk, the materials and techniques agree with this attribution, but the design and the extensive use of Joshua tree root for the color red is a Kawaiisu tradition.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
South Central Californian tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7.7 centimeters and diameter 6.4 centimeters