Coiled; tray shaped. Decoration: 4 brown birds arranged on basket sides and contained in horizontal panel defined by 4 thin brown lines. Made with cladium root and bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with split stitching and herringbone border stitch.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 24.5 centimeters and height 5.2 centimeters