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61-12-3

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 61-12-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Washoe | Panamint
Culture Area Great Basin Culture Area
Section American
Materials Willow | Devil's Claw | Bird Quill
Technique Coiled | Basketry
Description

Counter clockwise coil; 12 wefts per cm,; narrow neck (1.5 cm); broad, sloping sides making sharp angle with the slanting sides; buff background; brown to black designs; four groups of three horizontal lines on neck; ring dividing neck from body and one separating body from base; diamonds, rectangles and arrows are geometric designs on body; white element is bird quill.

Height 10.16 cm
Outside Diameter 15.24 cm
Credit Line Gift of Margaret M. Heyman, 1961

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