Wickerweave; radiating black and yellow lines from black center; alternating green and yellow areas inside perimeter. Made of ribs of sumac or willow twigs, rabbit brush weft, yucca leaf wrapped edge.
Donor:
Quail Hawkins
Collection place:
Third Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Third Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Harvey Ferguson
Collection date:
1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket plaques and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Tray for food and sacred meal; also household decoration.