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Collection: Nagy
Item Number: NC0002
Category: Basket
Region: California
Tribe: Kawaiisu
Period: 1900-1925
Materials: Willow; red yucca root, grass
Description: Bottleneck basket, with a stepped square design, woven in a manner known as the "grasshopper" stitch.
Dimensions: Width 13.25 inches; Height 9 inches
Provenance:
Probably made by the Williams or Butterbread families of the Kelso Canyon area
Collected by Frank Latta
Yosemite National Park Service collection, deaccessioned
Deaccessioned 2010
References:
cf, Moser, Christopher L., Native American Basketry of Central California, Riverside Museum Press, Riverside, 1986, pp iii for a similarly woven basket
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