Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 horizontal bands in red. Design material is redbud. Rim is slightly damaged.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Murphys, Calaveras County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Calaveras; Murphys
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 22.8 centimeters and height 12.3 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "pulissa" - generic term for type of basket. Materials: cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 34. Photo: 15-4970. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 47.