Twined basket in lattice twining technique, Pomo. Willow shoot warp, sewing strands of sedge root and split redbud shoots (pattern). This kind of basket was called a "t'i pase and in the old days was used for collecting and washing foodstuffs such as seaweed, shellfish, fish, and bulbs. (Identification provided by Larry Dawson of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology in 1978.) Note 8/22/2024: Donated in 1994 but L. Dawson comments from 1978. See donor file for explanation? "History of Amy Rinehart's baskets:This collection belonged to Miss Amy Rinehart, who taught in Lincoln School for many years. She came to California in the 1890's from Kentucky, and taught school in a 1-room schoolhouse in Yolo County for several years before moving to Oakland in about 1905. She acquired the collection from a Yolo County rancher, Henry (Alec) Lewis who collected the baskets from Indians and other local people. His gifts to her continued on to the 1930's. Amy Rinehart passed the collection on to her niece, Eugenia Sorensen, herself a teacher, who died in 1991. She was a sister of the donor."