Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. With encircling band of human figures, below this a band of rectangles with butterfly design, below this one band with double zigzag in red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tubatulabal Rancheria on Caliente Creek, South Fork Kern River, Kern County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Caliente-S.Fork Kern Rancheria
Culture or time period:
Tübatulabal
Maker or artist:
Mother of Mrs. Miranda
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Redbud and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, 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 8.5 inches and length 17.5 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 14. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p. 478, pl, 192. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 58.