Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red dye is Yucca. Three bands of triple zigzag step design in red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kelso Valley, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Kelso Valley
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Taxon:
Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
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 14.5 inches and width 5.5 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 25. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p 476 pl. 188. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #73: University of California, Santa Barbara (March 18, 1964–April 17, 1965) and S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967)