Basket
- Museum number:
- 1-255472
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010255472
- Accession number:
- Acc.3853
- Description:
- Round with concave bottom, geometric design alternating with heart design in dark brown on natural colored ground. Plain twined. Coiled rim. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft and overlay of redbud and maidenhair fern.
- Donor:
- Edward Briles
- Collection place:
- Alturas, Modoc County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Modoc; Alturas
- Culture or time period:
- Atsugewi
- Collector:
- Rosa Gibbons Briles
- Collection date:
- 1900-1920
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- August 31, 1983
- Context of use:
- Made for tourist trade.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 15 centimeters and height 13 centimeters
- Images:
- Legacy documentation: