Globose bottle-neck basket with very wide mouth. Design consisting of 2 encircling bands of red zigzag and a neck encircling band of red triangles arranged in zigzag fashion. Tag "Probably Kern County, no tribe name" on back of tag, crossed out "Tubatulabal". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular bottleneck basket. The basket has a pinhole starting knot and a grass bundle foundation. The wefts are Joshua tree root for the red and probably willow for the tan. At the base is one band of red. On the sides there are two bands of zigzag horizontal lines; at the neck there is one band of alternating rectangles; there are seven sets of rim ticks, one is very faint. The weft fag ends are clipped. The workface is on the exterior and the work direction is to the right. The rim is plain wrapped and is flared. The coil ending is slightly tapered. The basket is probably Kawaiisu based on shape, materials and design.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
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)
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 Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia).