Twined basket, oval. Per Ralph Shanks: Plain twined. Start is plain twined over two warps. Reinforced rim made of wrapped warp sticks. Rim has damage in several places. Conifer root weft with beargrass overlay. Black designs are probably maidenhair fern. Designs include a band of designs around rim, and then diagonal parallelograms.
Donor:
Henry B. Hickey Jr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Jr.
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northeastern California tribes
Collector:
H. B. Hickey Sr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Sr.
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
18 inches, length 24 inches, and height 8.5 inches