Basketry. Color: cream, brown, and black. Solid cream circle in center with 6 small terraced projection also cream colored, banded in black. Each small cream colored projection is interfaced with inverted brown terraced elements. Around their bases is a band of cream/white checkerboard followed by a band of brown/black checkerboard, then a band of brown/black/brown/cream and finally, rim of long cream, short black bands. Rim is finished; one fiber is loose... (continued in Comments)
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Second Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket plaques and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1932
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 1.8 centimeters and diameter 24 centimeters
Comment:
...hanging device is present. Coiled foundation bundles sewn with split yucca fibers; dyes.