Basketry. Colors: Cream, red, green, and black. Design elements geometric; repeat pattern dividing into quadrants; red banded with black and green banded with black form opposite sides of a diamond. Rim coil fully sewn. Hanging loop torn at one end and hangs loosely at other. Coiled grass bundle foundations sewn with split yucca fibers.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Second Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket plaques, Coiled weaving, and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Hanging wall decoration; meal basket/tray.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 4.9 centimeters and diameter 33 centimeters