Mortar basket. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Similar (to 1-16549?); "mortar basket" added to card in pen. Braided work at edge. Grimy and worn from use. 2-faced overlay, red (redbud) and white. Zigzag designs in horizontal band; stripes above. 3-strand twining below band; the rest is plain twined. 2 hoops are lattice-twined to the outside at 6.5 - 7 cm above the bottom. The warp ends have been twined together to form rim.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Antlers, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Antler
Culture or time period:
Northern Wintun and Wintu
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
November 1910
Materials:
Common beargrass, Pine (wood), Redbud, and Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Cercis occidentalis, Salix, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1910
Context of use:
Mortar basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 69.