Coiled; wide mouth with sloping sides. Decoration: 3 groups of solid black "arrowheads" arranged in inverted pyramid-like fashion. Dark brown design material is bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with split 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 19 centimeters and height 9.4 centimeters