Shallow bowl basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Cerex) and Pine (Pinus). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Twined weave "ti" decorative design in red.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
C. F. Briggs, Edwin Lincoln McLeod, and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Pine (wood), Redbud, Sedge, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex, Cercis occidentalis, Pinus, and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Context of use:
For meals.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 18 inches and width 5 inches
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 49