Cooking Basket
Object type: Basket
Department: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Culture: Tübatulabal
Artist: Mary Tecuyas
Artist bio: Mary Tecuyas, American, Tübatulabal, 1760 (?), California–Bakersfield, CA, 1916
Artist role: Artist
Date: ca. 1880
Medium: Cladium root, yucca root, sumac, bracken fern root on bundle foundation
Dimensions: H. 9 3/4 x Diam. 20 1/4 in. (24.8 x 51.4 cm)
Classification: Basketry-Containers
Geography:    California United States  
Credit line: Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 1999
Accession year: 1999