Bowl shaped, coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches. Decoration: tufts of string and red wool on surface, arranged in thin horizontal bands. Grass coil made with cladium root.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Cherokee, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Cherokee
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 19 centimeters and diameter 41.5 centimeters