Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: wide brown or black diagonal designs - variants on zigzag pattern. Design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Tuolumne, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Tuolumne
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1923
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 45.2 centimeters and height 20.7 centimeters