Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteridium aquilinum). Red pattern is Yucca. Interrupted stitch. Decoration of 1 black and 5 simple red bands.
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
Materials:
Brake fern
Taxon:
Pteris quilina, Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 3.375 inches and length 5 inches
Comment:
Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 481 pl. 196. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 14.