Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). With zigzag design.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
from the Chukchansi at Picyuna (Katanin) 5 m from coarse Gold, Madera county.
Culture or time period:
Chukchansi
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
January 8-17, 1904
Materials:
Brake fern and Sedge
Taxon:
Carex, Pteris quilina, and Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.4 centimeters and diameter 19 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Said by John W. Hudson to be Moguelu type. For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 74.