Feather Basket

Feather Basket

Part of the Elsie Allen Basket Collection. The outside surface of this basket is covered with the crest feathers of an acorn woodpecker. A simple check design can be seen through the feathers. The weave is a three-rod coil with a sedge root weft over willow warp sticks.
  • Object: Feather Basket
  • Artist: Annie Lake
  • Circa: 1975
  • Dimensions: 11 centimeters
  • Culture Area: California
  • Cultural Group: Pomo
  • Cultural Context: -
  • Donor: Genevieve and Ralph Aquilar
  • Catalog #: 103.173