Bowl shaped, coiled, 2 bands of checker pattern in black. Split cottonwood or willow shoots; foundation is bundle of 3 willow shoots; devil's-claw (black).
Donor:
Helen Alice Burling
Collection place:
Central Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Western Apache
Collector:
Helen Alice Burling
Collection date:
late 1860 - 1869
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 8.7 centimeters and diameter 33.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1978-1979 #12: Merritt College (WHOOPS!9, 1978–February 1, 1979)