Conical, twined openwork, willow sticks and weft, cotton strips lashed on rim, base close twined and pitched.
Donor:
Ott Fleming Heizer
Collection place:
Sodaville, Mineral County, Nevada
Culture or time period:
Northern Paiute
Collector:
Ott Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
April 6, 1938
Context of use:
Used as burden basket when gathering pinon cones.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 54 centimeters
Loans:
S1973-1974 #67: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colin L. Busby (March 4, 1974–April 23, 1974) and S1977-1978 #63: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (1978–October 14, 1980)