Coiled. Open bowl shape. Design in red and black double triangles and bands of elongated checks. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge, bracken fern and redbud.
Donor:
Mrs. George H. Crooks
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
Collected in Ahwahnee
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell
Collection date:
1903-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 23 centimeters