Made of a hollowed boulder with basket hopper (a), and rude boulder pestle (b). A) Basketry mortar; coiled. Warp is Rush (Juncus), weft is Sumac (Rhus). Black pattern is Rhus dyed in Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana).
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Saboba Indian Reservation, Riverside County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Riverside; Saboba
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
June-July 1908
Materials:
Elderberry, Rush (material), and Sumac (wood)
Taxon:
Juncus, Rhus, and Sambucus mexicana
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Ground stone, Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Mortars (grinding tools)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "They [the objects] arrived in accessions 340-346, the data concerning which have been consolidated under accession No. 340. For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 18.