Basket

Item number E423983-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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No card found in catalog card fileDeep bowl-shaped basket, flaring up from narrow base to wide rim. Body is simple twined, with whitegrass overlay design showing on outside only. Design of horizontal bands of alternating stitches with diagonal bands forming x-shaped designs, with traces of red dye. Scalloped band attached at intervals to rim, one broken off. Identified as Quinault, Washington State, by Linda Eisenhart, Department of Anthropology, 1985.