Basketry plaque, coiled with interlocking stitches on grass bundle foundation. Decoration: two encircling bands of triangles in dark brown material (grass and brackenfern root). Basket has insect holes.
Donor:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Southern Sierra Miwok
Collector:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection date:
1933
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Coiled weaving, and Trays
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1933
Context of use:
Meal shaker, primarily for acorn meal.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 41.5 centimeters and height 3.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #25 [formerly I-54-B]: University of California, Riverside/John F. Goins (July 1, 1954–present)