Per Ralph Shanks: Conical burden basket. Willow warps. Basket has leather and cloth straps and the bottom has a canvas cover. There is an oval hole near bottom. There is some unpeeled willow halfway up on side of basket. Weft is probably willow. Reinforcing rod is attached to rim. Rod is lashed to bent over warps. Commercial twine holding canvas down. Burden baskets of the Sierra Miwok have an up-to-the-right slant of weft twist. This basket has a down-to-the-right slant of weft twist. This is typical of Northern Paiute baskets, including the Mono Lake Mono Paiute. This has the Paiute downward weft slant and looks like classic Paiute burden baskets. The rim is not attached in the distinctive Washoe manner.