Twined, with pedestal. Fancy, bowl shaped. Openwork top and bottom. Brown design of 6 complex triangles in brown with central straw - colored diamond design. Rim and base are alternating sections of brown and straw color.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Novelty. Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13 centimeters and diameter 23.5 centimeters