Coiled on grass bundle foundation with interlocking stitches, bowl shaped with incurving rim. Decoration: alternate vertical bands of triangles piled on top of each other and of rectangular figures, in black. Made of cladium root and grass.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 15.5 centimeters and diameter 19 centimeters