Coiled, bowl shape, vertical designs in black and reddish brown (obscured by wear and food residue), rim and base worn and broken. 3-rod foundation, coiled rightwards in non-interlocking stitch. Sewing strands of split peeled shoots, split devil's-claw pods and Joshua tree root.
Donor:
Beverly Blackmer and Francesca Blackmer Wigg
Collection place:
Churchill County, Nevada
Verbatim coll. place:
from the local area of Lovelock, Nevada
Culture or time period:
Panamint
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1936
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1936
Context of use:
Evidently used for food container, but does not show the wear pattern of stone boiling.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13 centimeters and width 28.6 centimeters
Comment:
Per ledger: "Coiled basket - dia. 11", depth 5" H. 13cm, W. 28.6cm. Panamint Attr. L. E. Dawson, [19]'78 (no such documentation). Evidently used for food container, but does not show wear pattern of stone boiling.