Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge. Black pattern is Sedge bark (Carex). Ornamented with white beads, decoration in very dark red design called "mountain and valley." Old and worn.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Sedge and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Carex and Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 17.75 inches and width 8.25 inches
Comment:
For materials, see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 49