Round basket with straight, upright sides. Basket is flexible and of wrapped style construction. Woven decorations include three dual coloured, twisted strands of sedge root under the rim, a mirror image triangular design encircling the basket at centre, and an encircling line of small squares at bottom. The base is decorated with several concentric circles of various widths.

• Narrative

  Originally owned by the donor's late husband's grandmother, Eleanor Caldwell Browne. She taught at a government Indian school in Indian Valley, near Greenville, Plumas County, California, from 1897-99. It is thought that the baskets were a gift to her during that time.

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• Type of Item basket
• Culture Maidu
• Material sedge root, root, acorn dye
• Measurements height 10.5 cm, diameter 19.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Eleanor Caldwell Browne, Claudine B. Nelson
• Received from Claudine B. Nelson

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• Made in California

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• Creation Date between 1850 and 1900
• Ownership Date before 1947, before September 18, 2014
• Acquisition Date on September 18, 2014

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• Item Classes basketry
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3074/0004