(a) Basket. Round with incurving sides at lower edge, shallow pedestal, flat bottom; pattern of alternating circular bands of dark brown and natural. (b) Lid flat with edge which fits inside basket. (c) Handle in center is broken and detached. Coiled, made with redbud, peeled shoot.
Donor:
Lillian Strang
Collection place:
Cassel, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Cassel
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
Morris Riskin and Old Lady Buckskin
Collection date:
1925
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions