Winnower basket; warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Finely woven flat triangular sifting basket. Decorated with red lines and triangles.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Secret Diggings, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Secret Diggings
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Redbud
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Winnowers (agricultural equipment)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 63.