Bowl shaped with beadwork cover; translucent red and opaque white glass seed beads in goemetric pattern on black ground, translucent yellow beads at rim where separate beadwork cover is attached to basket. Basket has geometric design in brown on natural color ground. Plain twined, tule.
Donor:
Edward Briles
Collection place:
Alturas, Modoc County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Modoc; Alturas
Culture or time period:
Modoc
Collector:
Rosa Gibbons Briles
Collection date:
1900-1920
Materials:
Glass (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 31, 1983
Context of use:
Made for tourist trade
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 10.5 centimeters and height 10 centimeters