Collection place: Central California / Donor: Mrs. A. G. McFarland / Culture or time period: California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64295, described as Coiled, large.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-64297, described as Coiled, small, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl. Single rod foundation. Background wefts are sedge root and the design wefts are redbud. The design at the base is a flower/star pattern. At the rim there is a horizontal band of downward pointing triangles. The weft fag ends are clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction. It has a plain wrapped rim with a tapered coil ending. Based on the technical features, such as the clipped fag ends, makes this basket likely to be Sierra Miwok.