Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: horizontal band of 5 inverted diamond or hourglass figures in solid brown, bordered by thin brown lines encircling basket. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
South Central 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:
height 20 centimeters and diameter 35.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1993-1994 #16: Sun Gallery (April 11, 1994–June 23, 1994) and S2005-2006 #5: California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (October 7, 2005–March 15, 2006)