Basketry Tray
Mission - school house, basketry tray; coiled - one rod; warp - willow; weft - rafia; clockwise coiling; field element - undyed rafia; design element - dyed rafia (black); design pattern - five pointed flower pattern which radiates out, three times from center; five diamonds one inch below rim - - one between each point of the radiating star.
- Object: Basketry Tray
- Artist: Unknown
- Circa: Early 1900's
- Dimensions: 12 1/4" by 2 1/4"
- Culture Area: California
- Cultural Group: Mission (unidentified)
- Cultural Context: Possible trading basket; typical of boarding school baskets made in southern California in early 1900's.
- Donor: Caroline Underwood
- Catalog #: 96.127