Round with concave base, stepped triangle design in dark brown on natural ground. Willow shoot warp and pine root weft, plain twined with full twist overlay of redbud and white grass.
Donor:
Robert Jessup
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Achumawi
Collector:
Alma Stebbins Needham and William Gloss Needham
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
December 7, 1987
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 12.2 centimeters