Made of willow shoots. Top-shaped with short neck. Diagonal twined container with 2 horsehair cordage loop handles on one side, leather thong tied to loops; red ochre pigment; pine pitch coated surface. Neck with coil mend.
Donor:
Mrs. Dale Parks and Mrs. Stanley Curry
Collection place:
Nevada
Culture or time period:
Northern Paiute
Collector:
H. E. Parks and Mrs. H. E. Parks
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Pine pitch and Willow shoots
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Bottles, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 1970
Context of use:
Water bottle. Used to carry water when going to dry camps to gather nuts, sometimes used to store nuts.