Bowl shaped with beadwork cover; multicolored glass seed beads in striped geometric pattern on light blue ground, separate beadwork cover is attached to basket at rim. Beadwork broken in one area near rim. Basket has spiral pattern in dark brown on natural color ground and has been turned inside out. Plain twined, tule.
Donor:
Edward Briles
Collection place:
Alturas, Modoc County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Modoc; Alturas
Culture or time period:
Modoc
Collector:
Rosa Gibbons Briles
Collection date:
1900-1920
Materials:
Glass (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 31, 1983
Context of use:
Made for tourist trade
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters and diameter 14.5 centimeters