Coiled basketry bowl with black and brown patterns, 8 groups of figures. On catalog card "Made of [by] Ramona". Tags on rim "Luiseño" and a second tag "219". On bottom of basket "No.219. Property of Mrs. George H. Taylor Fresno Cal." and a second tag "219". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. Deergrass bundle foundation. Background wefts are sumac and the designs are brown and black dyed juncus. The designs are three double diamonds and five sets of paired vertical triangles, two of which have brown filling the designs. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim and the coil ending is tapered with three herringbone stitches. Based on the location of collection, the materials and technical features the basket is attributed to Luiseño with a possibility of being Cahuilla. Hairs are woven into basket near the triangles in the interior.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Saboba Indian Reservation, Riverside County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Riverside; Saboba
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 5.5 inches and length 15.25 inches
Comment:
Photo: 15-6397. Published: Publ. in Anthr. Papers, A.M.N.H. vol. 20, pp. 181, 182. Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 93.