2 rattlesnake bands on body, one on shoulder (red diamond, outlined in straw-colored ground on encircling black band); coiled, necked, jar-shaped. Minute traces of feathers; 2 areas of red diamonds and black triangles on neck. Made of redbud and bracken fern.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tulare; Tule River Reservation
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
ca. 1910
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers