Basket

Ellen Amos
Chukchansi Yokuts/Southern Miwok
1890 – 1910

Rows of Diamonds are sometimes called a snake band. This basket has three snake bands, one on the lid and two on the body of the basket.

Coiled. Bracken fern root, bunchgrass, sedgeroot. Basket: H 6.5, Dia 13.6 cm; Lid: Dia 10.3, T 1.2 cm

Yosemite National Park, YOSE 40206