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61-12-12

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 61-12-12
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Washoe | Panamint
Culture Area Great Basin Culture Area
Section American
Materials Willow | Yucca | Devil's Claw
Technique Coiled
Description

Counter clockwise coil; seven weft elements per cm.; buff, rum coil six areas of alternating buff and brown-black wefts; two band of decoration formed by a top and bottom row of brown-black triangles making buff diamond with red-brown centers; band 4 cm. wide; lower band composed of two rows of red-brown interlocking triangles separated by a narrow zig zag buff line; base decorated with three concentric circles of buff dots; each dot formed by four small brown-black rectangles. Bowl shape; two horizontal bands of rattlesnake designs.

Height 11.99 cm
Outside Diameter 25.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of Margaret M. Heyman, 1961

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