Coiled, bottle-neck shape. Black designs. No feathers or yarn on rim. Left to right work direction. Sedge root and bracken fern root (black) weft, grass bundle foundation.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Fancy basket used to hold "money.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 13.3 centimeters and height 6.2 centimeters