Small coiled basket bowl, black and red design. Per Ralph Shanks: Miniature bowl. Probably made for tourist trade. Leather strap on rim. Coiled with three rod foundation of willow. Leftward warp direction. Willow probable for background material. Primarily black design of devils claw chevrons whirling from base. Also red commercial dyed lines between black. Work-face is on interior.
Donor:
Mrs. G. E. Stockle
Collection place:
Fort Apache, Apache County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Fort Apache
Culture or time period:
White Mountain Apache
Collector:
Mrs. G. E. Stockle
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Accession date:
1938
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Was believed to be misnumbered, as the catalog card lists this object as a bottle. The ledger lists it as a bowl (the word bowl is difficult to read).