See also NMNH Department of Botany Edward Palmer collections web exhibit page on this artifact: http://botany.si.edu/colls/palmer/narrative_page.cfm?Narr=1&locality= . Identified there as coiled basket bowl built on yucca fiber and sewed with rhus or willow. The ornamentation involves red paint and splints dyed black. The border of back-and-forward sewing imitates a braid. The method of administration is quite apparent in the specimen. The border stitches have an excursion varying from 2 to 4 of the regular stitches of the last coil at the top of the bowl. Depth, 3 inches.
