Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: 2 thin horizontal zigzags in brown/black (zigzags consist of reversing triangles). Made with cladium root and bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
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
Taxon:
Cladium
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 18.5 centimeters and height 7 centimeters