Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-0896 | |
| Category | Basketry | |
| Object Name | Burden basket | |
| Culture | Pomo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | California | |
| County | Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake | |
| Other Geographic Data | unknown | |
| Maker's Name | Unknown | |
| Date of Manufacture | late 1800s | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Willow (Salix sp.) shoots; Sedge (Carex sp.) roots; Redbud (Cercis canadensis var. texensis) shoots | |
| Description | Round conical burden basket with pointed base and flaring sides; Woven primarily in plain twining with diagonal twining on base and near rim; Heavy reinforcing rod located on interior rim is coil wrapped; Design is in split redbud and consists of 6 bands of varying width (2 of rectangles, 1 zigzag, 2 of arrow shapes, and 1 of open contiguous diamonds); Additional dashed band frames rim. [In 1977 Pomo basketweaver Mable McKay identified this as a burden or work basket with a rattlesnake design. She said such baskets were made as an initiation gift for a teenager by the parents and presented by a healer during a ceremony.] | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Height = 34.7, Max Diam = 42.7 | |