Basket, Cylindrical Twined Bag

Description: 

"Sally" bag. Plain twining and twill twining. Woven mouth up, rightward work direction, Z-twist. Warp is sisal twine. Weft starts with cotton mailing twine; cattail continues on outer base to partway through bottom design band. Full turn (wrapped) twining design bands of human, condor, and large animal motifs in white corn husk and dark-dyed cattail. Plain bands are plain twining with bands of twill twining (an older technique). One piece of green cord at bottom near turn-up may have been false embroidery. Dark (smoke-dyed?) buckskin rim sewn on with cotton thread.

People: 
Wasco, Wishram
Location Description: 

Columbia Plateau