Basket

Museum number:

1-71220

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Accession number:

Acc.838

Object count:

1

Description:

Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: 3 horizontal red/brown bands encircling basket. Dark material is bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.

Donor:

Grace Blair DePue

Collection place:

Northern Sierras, Northern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

unknown

Collection date:

1900-1944

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 23 centimeters and height 11 centimeters

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