Flat and round. Plain twined open-work weave with warp sticks running parallel. Edge is a heavy hoop wrapped to the base of the basket. Condition poor.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Made by a Mohave woman.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 46 centimeters
Comment:
Made by: a Mohave woman. Photo: 15-6083. Published: BAEB 78, Pl. 55.