Conical basket, leather patch lashed with throngs to base. Canvas tumpline lashed to basket with leather thongs, wood splints on rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.
Donor:
Ott Fleming Heizer
Collection place:
Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
Ott Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
April 6, 1938
Context of use:
Found in branches of pinon tree (Pinus monophylla). Used as burden basket when gathering pinon cones.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 73.8 centimeters
Loans:
S1973-1974 #67: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colin L. Busby (March 4, 1974–April 23, 1974) and S1977-1978 #63: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (1978–October 14, 1980)