Coiled on a bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches, wide mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 3 encircling black horizontal zigzags (composed of "flying geese"). Dark brown material is bracken fern root.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 34.5 centimeters and height 17 centimeters