Basketry plaque. Coiled. Red, green, and black dyes made of yucca fiber. 4 pointed star emanates from middle and is pendant from rim; solid cream band in black; slightly slopes up toward rim; green is fading. No hanging loop.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northeastern Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1892-1905
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Coiled weaving, and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 31.4 centimeters and height 4 centimeters
Comment:
E. L. McLeod Memorial collection was made by E. McLeod between 1892 and 1905, begun for the Cal. Hist. Dept. of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1892. Following Mr. McLeod's death in ___, the collection was in the possession of his sister, Mrs. Leo H. Taylor from whom Mrs. Hearst purchased it. The collection was exhibited at the Panama Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. It was then purchased by Mrs. P.A. Hearst and donated to the University. The collection is of unusual value as many of the pieces are figured in Mason''s Aboriginal American Pottery.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #122: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (June 22, 1967–August 1, 1967) and S1986-1987 #24: Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco) (March 2, 1987–May 5, 1987)