Basket

Attributed to central California, Native American

  • Titles Basket (Descriptive)
  • Medium fiber, plant; coiled
  • Dimensions Overall: 2 3/4 x 7 in. (7 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Douglas K. S. Hyland, 1986.161
  • Work Type basket
  • Classification Containers

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Bottle-Shaped Pot, Native American, pottery
To the loop is attached a string of beads on a buckskin thong. There are twenty three spherical blue, eight spherical red, four large blue angular, six small blue angular; one piece of pearl from a knife handle
Square riddle or sieve loosely woven of split hickory, molded in the bottom with rounded edge.
Large spruce root basket; folded; weave is tighter at the top; two thong handles. Inside are some fragments of cedar bark basket.