Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Rush (Juncus), weft is Skunkbush (Rhus trilobata). Black color is Rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda. Old coiled basketry bowl with simple black band decoration, bottom covered with leather.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Southern California "Southern California below Santa Barbara" per accession file pg. 78.
Culture or time period:
Chumash
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 11.5 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 93
Loans:
S1963-1964 #73: University of California, Santa Barbara (March 18, 1964–April 17, 1965)