Basket

Lucy Hite
Southern Miwok
ca. 1897

The rattlesnake design on this basket is composed of rows of hollow diamonds filled with solid diamonds using redbud and bracken fern root.

Coiled. Redbud, bracken fern root, bunchgrass. H 12.9, Dia 23.1 cm
Yosemite National Park, YOSE 27075