Diagonally twined carrying basket

Pomo, Native American

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A similar basket sits at bottom left of Tavernier’s Roundhouse canvas, likely added for visual interest or as a reference to the common association of Pomo peoples with their basketry. In reality, such an object would not be present in the roundhouse. Instead, women used these finely made bell-shaped baskets in tandem with a woven spoon-shaped seed beater, as seen in the photograph at left (1976.505.14.4), to harvest and carry home mounds of ripe edible grains from native grasses and annuals.

Diagonally twined carrying basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap, Pomo, Native American

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Diagonally twined carrying basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap, Pomo, Native American
Diagonally twined carrying basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap, Pomo, Native American
Diagonally twined carrying basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap, Pomo, Native American
Diagonally twined carrying basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap, Pomo, Native American
Diagonally twined carrying basket, Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap, Pomo, Native American

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