Large Western Mono Cooking Basket

Coiled Basket

DPR Collections

Name/Title

Large Western Mono Cooking Basket

Description

Great cooking basket decorated with two zig zag bands of bracken fern. It has lots of interior wear from cooking. There are many native repairs in the base as well as some repairs in the rim stitching.

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Central California

Continent

North America

Culture/Tribe

Western Mono

Native American

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Diameter

15-3/4 in

Material

Grass, Sedge, Bracken Fern

Coiled Basket Details

Coiled Start Type

Round

Coiled Start Material

Grass, Sedge

Coiled Finish Type

Self Coiled

Foundation

Coiled Foundation Type

Bundle

Coiled Foundation Material

Grass

Coil Direction

Left

Stitch Details

Stitch Spacing

Predominantly Closed Spacing

Background Stitch Material

Sedge

Design Stitch Material

Bracken Fern

Stitch Details

Unsplit or Whole, Interlocking, Randomly Bifurcated

Stitch End

Clipped