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Collection: Nagy
Item Number: NC0003
Category: Basket
Region: California
Tribe: Costanoan
Period: 1825-1850
Materials: Deer grass root foundation as a bundle, sewn with strands of split sedge root; white glass beads
Description: Acorn flour sifting basket woven with a non-interlocking stitch and with large white opaque beads woven into the outside base in two concentric rings.
Dimensions: Width 9.125 inches; Height 1.75 inches
Provenance:
San Juan Batista area
References:
Letter describing this basket from Craig Bates, Curator of Ethnography, Yosemite National Park Service, December 14, 1990
Notes (click on note to open):
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