Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Black pattern is Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia). 4 broad vertical bands of decoration in red and black, "feather design.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weldon-Kelso Canyon Rancheria, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Weldon-Kelso Canyon Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Devil's horn, Redbud, and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Proboscidea (plant), 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:
width 7 inches and length 15 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 43. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 478, pl, 192. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 58.