Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches; flat and tray-like in form. Decoration: "flying geese" rectangular figures in red and black. Made of grass shoots, redbud and bracken fern root. Remnants of herringbone border. Small area near rim has been repaired.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Cherokee, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Cherokee
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
July 14, 1922
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 2 centimeters and diameter 42 centimeters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #10: American Indian Film Project/Samuel A. Barrett (August 24, 1961–September 14, 1961)