Fish trap of whole willow (gaiī’ˑce) shoots in plain twined coarse openwork. Large rim section missing. Southeastern Pomo name: xa’xōi.
Donor:
Jesse O. Sawyer Jr.
Collection place:
Sulphur Creek, just north of Cloverdale, Sonoma County
Verbatim coll. place:
Sulphur Creek, just north of Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
ca. 1920
Materials:
Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix laevigata
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Fish traps, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
For trapping fish. Often used in shallower and muddier waters of the Clear Lake during spawning season, fish are a staple of Eastern and Southeastern Pomo cuisine since the Clear Lake was chock full of them.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 1 meters
Comment:
cf. Barrett, Samuel Alfred. Pomo Indian Basketry. Vol. 7. The University Press, 1908. Sturtevant, William C. Handbook of North American Indians. Edited by Wilcomb E. Washburn, David Damas, June Helm, Wayne Suttles, Alfonso Ortiz, Warren L. D'Azevedo, Ives Goddard, and Deward E. Walker. Vol. 8. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Kroeber, Alfred Louis. "California Basketry and the Pomo." American Anthropologist 11, no. 2 (1909): 233-249.