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61-12-9

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 61-12-9
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Washoe | Panamint
Culture Area Great Basin Culture Area
Section American
Materials Willow | Devil's Claw | Bullrush
Technique Coiled | Basketry
Description

Counter clockwise coil; irregular number of wefts per cm. (11-13); straight sloping sides; buff; rim coil has six areas of alternating buff and brown-black wefts; two 3cm 3 mm bands of geometric designs made up of a top and bottom row of brown-black triangles forming buff diamonds; in between centers of these diamonds are red-brown. Bowl shape; two horizontal bands of rattlesnake designs.

Credit Line Gift of Margaret M. Heyman, 1961

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