Coiled. Large deep basin shape. Design: 3 bands of red and black, upper 2 bands are diamond back rattlesnake pattern. Lower bands are offset bars. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge, bracken fern and redbud shoots.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Chawchila
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Made for sale (atypical mush boiler).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 23.5 centimeters and diameter 76 centimeters
Comment:
Said to have been bought from Chowchilis (presumably Chowchilla/Chaushila).