Coiled, bowl shaped with incurving rim. Decoration: diagonal crossing lines of black "flying geese". Materials include cladium root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Basket has several insect holes.
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:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.5 centimeters and diameter 20.5 centimeters