Tray-shaped, coiled. Decoration: solid red triangles arranged in geometric flower-like pattern. Cladium and redbud. Single-rod coiling with interlocking 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)
Comment:
Note: this basket was originally purchased for $10.00.