Coiled, wide mouthed with flaring sides. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese". Grass or splint coil with split stitching; "but not like Maidu".
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 34 centimeters and height 14.5 centimeters