Round with incurving sides in lower part, concave bottom, circular rhomboid design in dark brown on natural ground. Rim broken in several areas. Peeled shoot warp with tule root weft, overlay of redbud, plain twined.
Donor:
Lillian Strang
Collection place:
Cassel, Shasta County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Cassel
Culture or time period:
Atsugewi
Collector:
Morris Riskin and Old Lady Buckskin
Collection date:
1925
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 25.5 centimeters and height 16 centimeters
Comment:
See accession envelope for letter from donor concerning collection and notes by L.E. Dawson on attribution.