Large coiled feast basket with flaring sides. 2 encircling rattlesnake bands composed of straw-color-outlined red diamonds on black ground, in between two bands are standing anthropomorphic figures (alternating figures of women and men).
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
collected by friend of W.W. Lyman from the maker
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Friend of W.W. Lyman
Collection date:
1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Feast basket. Used to serve acorn mush at dances.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 32.5 centimeters and diameter 70 centimeters