Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: 8 brown vertical zigzags and 3 horizontal bands of brown hourglass-type figures. Made with cladium root; coiled on a bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Yosemite National Park, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Yosemite
Culture or time period:
Southern Sierra Miwok
Maker or artist:
Granddaughter of Lucy
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
July 1921
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:
diameter 28.6 centimeters and height 11.5 centimeters