Storage Basket
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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- wood, split willow shoots; plant, Devil’s Claw
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0098
- Description
- A coiled basket with flat base and straight, flaring sides, coils stitched with natural coloured split root ? with very dark brown design of same material. Design composed of three parallel lines running around the sides of the basket, along the top then slanting down, then along the bottom, then s…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- wood, split willow shoots; plant, Devil’s Claw
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- A coiled basket with flat base and straight, flaring sides, coils stitched with natural coloured split root ? with very dark brown design of same material. Design composed of three parallel lines running around the sides of the basket, along the top then slanting down, then along the bottom, then slanting up again, repeated around with the rectangular areas left between the path of the lines filled in as dark coloured parallelograms. The rim of the basket, the coil along the bottom, and one single coil in the base are dark. Design inside as well as outside, piece of knotted black thread through top coil on one side of basket, presumably for display at some time, very sturdy. Marks: round cardboard tag framed with metal attached with string to basket with string sealed to back of tag with black sealing wax with signet impression, tag handwritten in faded ink, "Fine Pima river ? Art 8913/50".
- Subject
- Indigenous, Pima
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0098
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