Single-rod coiling with split stitches, bowl shaped. Decoration: 4 figures of rectangular form in faded dark red. Peeled shoots and bracken fern root. Bottom of basket shows signs of wear.
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:
Bowl baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 19.2 centimeters and height 7.2 centimeters