Coiled, bowl shaped. Decoration: Diamond figures outlined aginst black band encircling lower portion of basket; 4 groups of solid black diamonds placed horizontally, closer to rim. Coiling on a bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Mariposa, Mariposa County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mariposa
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
July 1921
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 9.1 centimeters and diameter 19.5 centimeters