Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: numerous and varied designs in red and black; grass shoots and bracken fern root. Coiled on a grass bundle foundation with split stitches. Rim is damaged in one area; bottom has been sewn on with rope.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 20.5 centimeters and diameter 33.5 centimeters