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

Notes (click on note to open):

Craig D. Bates 1992

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