Coiled, bucket shaped. Black, reddish brown and orange designs. Buff colored ground is sumac shoot, reddish brown is Joshua tree root. Black is devil's-claw pod, orange is flicker feather quills.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Kawaiisu
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
Context of use:
Used as woman's hat.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 20 centimeters and height 11.2 centimeters