Basket

Museum number:

1-233495

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010233495

Accession number:

Acc.2939

Object count:

2

Count note:

1 bag of fragments

Description:

Basin shaped, coiled, single-rod foundation. 2 bands zigzag design in redbud material, linear band near center. Broken around rim. Made with sedge root, willow root, and redbud shoot sewing strands; willow shoot foundation; twined string.

Donor:

Leigh Marston

Collection place:

Lakeport, Lake County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Lake; Lakeport

Culture or time period:

Pomo

Collector:

Leigh Marston

Collection date:

ca. 1910

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving

Function:

5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions

Accession date:

1973

Context of use:

Probably made for sale.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 8 centimeters and diameter 41 centimeters

Comment:

Made by women.

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