Coiled, shallow, plate shape. Bug or tarantula design. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl. Foundation is three rod shoot foundation, probably willow. Work direction is to the right. The workface is on the interior. The basket start and base weft is probably willow. The rest of the basket weft is in natural and black dyed juncus. The weft fag ends are clipped and/or hidden. Designs are four insects with four legs each. There is a black band at the rim. Probably made by a Chemehuevi weaver that migrated west after the Mohave war. This attribution is based on the use of willow three rod foundation, weft fag ends treatment, use of willow as weft in part of basket, the black rim design, as well as the close weft stitching.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Mojave Desert, Southeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Chemehuevi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
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 8 inches and height 3 inches
Loans:
S1975-1976 #9: Palo Alto Cultural Center (November 1974–unknown)