Coiled, squat globular shape. Design: 5 units of red and black rightward ascending step patterns. Materials: grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and split redbud shoot.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Maker or artist:
Louisa Hilliard
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Treasure baskets
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Trinket basket for small objects. Also served as gift basket.