A YOKUTS POLYCHROME COILED BOWL. . c. 1910. ...

Description

A YOKUTS POLYCHROME COILED BOWL

c. 1910

a cooking basket, woven of willow, bracken fern root, and redbud, with two rattlesnake bands encircling the body, ticked panels on the rim

The Yokuts used large, finely coiled baskets for making acorn soup, a dietary staple. The cooking was done using the stone boiling method in which two or three fire heated stones are set in a basket containing leached acorn dough in water. The red-hot stones are moved around so that the basket is not seriously scorched or burned.

Reference:
Bibby, Brian, The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1996, p. 55.

Diameter: 22 inches

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