Twined, conical; 5 bands of black design, cloth carrying loops and canvas patch on apex. New rim and mending done by donor. Materials: peeled shoot warp, split peeled shoot weft, split devil's-claw pod (Proboscidea parviflora) black design material. Diagonal twining and 3-strand twining. Original rim was of the kind with warp ends turned leftward into a bundle which was then wrapped and served as a foundation onto which the rim stick was attached by coiling.
Donor:
Craig D. Bates and Jennifer Bates
Collection place:
Southeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Panamint
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Context of use:
For seed gathering.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 46 centimeters and diameter 58.5 centimeters
Comment:
(Panamint burden baskets are exceedingly rare in museum collections)." "Made by women." Native name: "kavon