Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca. Black pattern is Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia). Lightning pattern consisting of 4 double bars and one single bar, alternating with butterfly and triangle designs in red and black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tejon, Kern County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Kern; Tejon
Culture or time period:
Kitanemuk
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Devil's horn, Willow (wood), and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Proboscidea (plant), Salix, Sporobolus rigens, and Yucca
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 5.75 inches and length 13 inches
Comment:
Additional original number: 34. Published: Mason's Aboriginal Basketry p 477, pl 190. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p 15.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #73: University of California, Santa Barbara (March 18, 1964–April 17, 1965)