Coiled, oval. Swastika and eagle design. Tag "Mission type Eagle Swastika Oval" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled oval bowl. Not used. It has a deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sumac and the designs are orange and black-dyed juncus. The design is four swastikas, two diamonds, two eagles, two sets of three short rows of black and white stripes, and two sets of two other geometric designs. The basket has an oval starting knot. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are clipped. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. Due to the design layout, the use of materials, and the clipped fag ends this is attributed to the Cahuilla.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Imperial County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla
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:
height 4 inches, diameter 16 inches, and width 13 inches