Basket

Museum number:

1-71669

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010071669

Alternate number:

TB-83 (additional number, Possibly this number)

Accession number:

Acc.838

Object count:

1

Description:

Coiled; wide mouthed with sloping sides. Per Natasha Johnson: This is probably the basket currently identified as TB-83. The measurements match those on the tag, the basket is att. Miwok on the tag (with sierra crossed out). The basket is miss-numbered 1-70670 (which is a Washo basket).

Donor:

Grace Blair DePue

Collection place:

South Central 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:

height 4 inches and diameter 7 inches

Images:

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