Gift Basket
3 rod coiled Maidu gift basket. Materials: willow - warp, willow - weft, designs - redbud. Designs: A negative/white five pointed star flower pattern in the negative (looking at the basket from the bottom). The redbud creates the part that is not the flower - appearing to be a diamond (4) pattern radiating down from the rim, or positive/black triangle designs pointed toward the bottom of the basket.
- Object: Gift Basket
- Artist: -
- Circa: -
- Dimensions: 4.25" L x 4" W x 2.5" H 3 1/2" D of rim 2 1/2" D of base 12 stitches to the inch
- Culture Area: California
- Cultural Group: Maidu
- Cultural Context: -
- Donor: Bryan and Barbara McCarthy
- Catalog #: 90.223