Coiled; large. Decoration: black rectangular motif (black maidenfern root). Foundation material of willow. Open single-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Marjorie Cook Wilson
Collection place:
Yosemite National Park, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Yosemite
Culture or time period:
Southern Sierra Miwok
Collector:
May C. Cook
Collection date:
1900-1910
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1956
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 22 centimeters and diameter 59.5 centimeters