Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). With design of red and black rectangles and zigzag lines. New.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Mitcahai
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Materials:
Redbud and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 26.9 centimeters and height 11.9 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, P. 74.