Object Number | 61-12-8 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Washoe | Panamint | Kawaiisu | Tubatulabal |
Culture Area | Great Basin Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Willow | Devil's Claw | Yucca |
Technique | Coiled | Basketry |
Description | Counter clockwise coil; irregular number of wefts per cm. (9-13); sloping sides with curve at top; buff; rim coil has seven areas of alternating buff and brown-black wefts; sides have two rows of six-pointed stars; top one has 14 brown-black interlocking stars; bottom row has seven evenly spaced red-brown ones. Bowl shape; 2 horizontal bands of six-pointed stars: top band has 14 brown-black stars, lower band has seven red-brown stars. |
Credit Line | Gift of Margaret M. Heyman, 1961 |
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