Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: 3 double bands of black "flying geese" arranged in horizontal zigzags. 3-rod coiling with non-interlocking stitches and numerous split stitches on interior face.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Cherokee, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Cherokee
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Maker or artist:
Johanna
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
July 14, 1922
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 43.2 centimeters and height 23.2 centimeters