Flat bottomed conical basket with diagonal patterns of quail plumes in brown material. Rim damaged. 3-rod foundation of peeled shoots; sewing strands of sedge root and split redbud shoots.
Donor:
Mrs. Charles A. Bliss
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Patwin
Collector:
Preacher in Napa Valley
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Unused mush boiler.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 19 centimeters and diameter 36.7 centimeters