Basketry teacup. Cup is covered with glass seed beadwork, multi-colored geometric design on bright blue ground. Plain twined, tule.
Donor:
Edward Briles
Collection place:
Alturas, Modoc County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Modoc; Alturas
Culture or time period:
Modoc
Collector:
Rosa Gibbons Briles
Collection date:
1900-1920
Materials:
Glass (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 31, 1983
Context of use:
Made for tourist trade
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 5.5 centimeters and diameter 7 centimeters
Comment:
References: "Orchard, William C. "Beads and Beadwork of the American Indian", Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, 1929, Vol. 11, p. 95.