Openwork plain twined plate basket with border of turned down warp sticks. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica).
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Sherwood Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Sherwood Valley
Culture or time period:
Mitoám Kai Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 50. S.A. Barrett field notes, p. 114: Lucy Cooper, informant; openwork basket. Turned down warp border.