Starting basketry; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix) and Sedge root (Carex), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Knot; 4-fiber, 2 rod coiling.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Stonyford, Colusa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Colusa; Stonyford
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
December 21, 1903
Materials:
Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-6082. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 49. Published in BAE B78 Pl. 55. Was marked as missing in 1994, found in cabinet in 1996.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #41: Art Department (SF State University)/Lawrence E. Dawson (December 15, 1964–December 15, 1964), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #109: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 11, 1967–May 11, 1967), S1966-1967 #14: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (October 20, 1966–January 20, 1967), S1967-1968 #37: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (October 9, 1967–November 15, 1967), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)