Bowl basket

Museum number:

1-255004

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Accession number:

Acc.3568

Object count:

1

Description:

Bowl shape with opening in bottom. Twined with pine root weft and hazel shoot or willow warp, indeterminate overlay pattern of maiden hair fern and Xerophyllum tenax. Rim missing and edge of bottom opening is broken.

Donor:

May Boas

Collection place:

North Central California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Wintu

Collector:

Grandparents of May Boas

Collection date:

ca. 1900

Taxon:

Xerophyllum tenax

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bowl baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1980

Context of use:

Mortar hopper.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

18 centimeters

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