Coiled; wide mouthed, with sloping sides, flat bottom. Decoration: six horizontally dispersed solid brown hourglass-like figures. Indeterminate number of foundation rods. Black designs. Diagonally overstitched rim.
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
Context of use:
Mush boiling basket - has been used.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 24.5 centimeters and height 11.2 centimeters