Small twined basket; diamond designs. Per Ralph Shanks: Wintu or neighbors. Bottom has three strand twining, the rest of the basket is plain twined. Up to the right slanted weft twist. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Conifer root weft. Overlay of beargrass. Dark design material is unknown.
Donor:
Mrs. Charles C. Cushing
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wintu
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 8.4 centimeters and diameter 11 centimeters