Coiled. Globular shape with wide base and small mouth with flat bottom. Designs complex, maroon in color, made of redbud with sedge root background material. 3-rod foundation, with rim having 6.5 cm of backstitching at coil ending. Basket also has a small square "ownership mark" made with 3 stitches of redbud near base of the basket.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Patwin
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:
height 16.5 centimeters and width 27.5 centimeters