Coiled basket, rightward coil direction, sewn in sedge root. Design in bracken fern root and rim overstitched to produce slanted rim finish.
Sedge root, bracken fern root. H 11, Dia 24.1 cm
Yosemite National Park, YOSE 40208
Coiled basket, start detail
This close-up view demonstrates the clockspring start of a coiled basket, made by coiling a strand around itself until it resembles a wound-up clockspring. The large stitches in the center were likely added to fill in the hole at the center of the clockspring.
