Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: Bracken fern root, diagonal crossing bands of solid black "flying geese". Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches, herringbone border stitch at the rim. The basket is damaged at the rim and has numerous insect holes
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:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 25 centimeters and height 12.2 centimeters