H16.3990

20 in HIGH x 23.75 in WIDE
(50.80 cm HIGH x 60.32 cm WIDE)
Northwest, CA
Museum Purchase
H16.3990


Basket, twined, (for carrying). Design in redbud. "Wedding basket made by bride's mother for carrying cakes and bread."(Roseberry)[vv,6/91] "The above information is fanciful and most probably untrue. Ukiah area Pomo burden basket, not wedding basket as originally catalogued made with sedge root and redbud. Redbud and grapevine (?) for rim. Shows no signs of native use." (Bruce Bernstein/Craig Bates, 7/91) "Elsie Allen called this twining technique--the design element not visible in interior of basket--the `lost weave' as she did not know how to do it and could not teach it to me." (Susan Billy, 7/96)
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