Coiled flaring basketry bowl with broad red band near top; this band contains 2 rows of light colored diamonds. Red band bordered by bands above and below. Tags "Kern County S. Central California 54-B [old shelf number]". Tag on bottom "No 141 property of Mrs. George H. Taylor, Fresno Cal." Torn smaller tag on bottom "41". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled, flat bottomed, flared basket, perhaps used for cooking. The basket has use wear as well as non-native repairs and a nail hole. It has a deergrass bundle foundation. The weft designs are red Joshua tree root, black maiden hair fern. The background wefts are willow. The designs include at the rim ten sets of rim ticks, below that is a black horizontal design of alternating rectangles, below that is a red band containing two rows of light colored diamonds, below that is a repeat of the black horizontal design, below that is a band of unconnected two weft wide rectangles, below which there is a horizontal primarily red band, typically four rows tall. It has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The background weft fag ends are clipped. The rim is plain wrapped, with the very end missing. Based on the techniques and materials, this basket is from either the Tubatulabal or Kawaiisu.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
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:
length 16 inches and width 8 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 p 94". Per Ruth Merrill: Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Yucca. Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina).