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ID: indian_territory
Item: Large Mono Indian Acorn Soup/Mush Basket Community Feast Basket with Flight of the Butterfly Motif
Culture/Tribe: Mono , Central California
Artist/Maker: unsigned
Date/Circa: c.1890s
Size: 11" x 19"
Materials: Coiled in Sedge and brackenfern
Description: Very large feast bowl in Mint condition; this type of basket was used to cook large amounts of acorn mush which could be eaten hot like soup or dried into cakes. The Acorn meal was placed with water in this basket and heated with hot stones. This basket is in mint condition so would have been traded or sold immediately after it was woven
Condition: Mint or Near mint condition.
Provenance: From a private estate collection.
ITRef#: 021025-23
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