Coiled. Per Ralph Shanks: Straight sided cylindrical coiled basket with handle. Bundle foundation. The background wefts are yucca; the designs are dyed brown yucca and an unknown red material. The design is four c shaped elements. The starting knot has crossed warps. The basket has an exterior workface with clipped and tucked weft fag ends. The work direction is to the left. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered ending. The basket is Tohono O'Odahm based on the materials and technique.
Donor:
Mrs. L. B. Mackey
Collection place:
Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Southern California
Culture or time period:
Tohono O'odham
Collector:
Anne Henrietta Martin and Louise W. Martin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1953
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.4 centimeters and diameter 20.5 centimeters