Burden basket, diagonal and some plain twined openwork, with two rope loops attached and reinforcing hoop about half-way down the basket. Basket point is reinforced in leather. Decoration: some of weft material is of a faint red color, as is stitching at rim, giving contrast. Design material is redbud.
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:
Burden baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Used in transporting harvested food products such as seeds..
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 57 centimeters and diameter 41.5 centimeters