Coiled basket. Pedestal shaped bowl, black upward pointing triangles. Beads scattered near base. On 3 rod foundation with buff sedge root weft and black bull rush root designs. At rim of base distinctive Wappo rim ornamentation is trade beads of many colors are also a common Wappo trait. European shape.
Donor:
Sarah Levy and Sophia Hazel Levy McDonald
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wappo
Collector:
Sarah Levy
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1942
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.5 centimeters and diameter 24 centimeters