Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides, basin shaped with flat bottom. Decoration: groups of diagonally-oriented red designs (groups of lines, X figures) on upper portion of basket. 3-rod foundation.
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 15.7 centimeters and diameter 36.2 centimeters