Openwork bowl basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Willow. Note its symmetrical form and the perfectly symmetrical trimming of the warp sticks. Lattice twined weave.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Materials:
Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Note its symmetrical form and the perfectly symmetrical trimming of the warp sticks. For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 50. S.A. Barrett field notes 1917, p. 111: Capt. Jim Wailaki, informant. Open basket. Little Lake (note this).