Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). With black design in 3 bands similar to that on 20950. Shoulder ornamented with red yarn and quail crests.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Canebrake Canyon, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Canebrake Canyon
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Brake fern and Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Pteris quilina, and Sporobolus rigens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Jar baskets
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 5.625 inches and length 7.125 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 165. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p 479, pl 194. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p 58.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #4: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (July 29, 1963–July 29, 1963) and S1966-1967 #14: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (October 20, 1966–January 20, 1967)