Basket

Museum number:
2-68498a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
104 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4195
Description:
Round, shallow, bowl shape. Linear design in dark brown on deark, natural ground. Small opening in center closed with small wood peg, herringbone rim. Yucca warp, sumac and willow weft, coiled. a) Basket; b) peg.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
December 19, 1986
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— height 8.5 centimeters and (a)— diameter 26.6 centimeters
Comment:
References: Tanner, Clara Lee. Southwest Indian Craft Arts, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1968, pp. 25-26.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-68498a,b, described as Round, shallow, bowl shape. Linear design in dark brown on deark, natural ground. Small opening in center closed with small wood peg, herringbone rim. Yucca warp, sumac and willow weft, coiled. a) Basket; b) peg.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-68498a,b, described as Round, shallow, bowl shape. Linear design in dark brown on deark, natural ground. Small opening in center closed with small wood peg, herringbone rim. Yucca warp, sumac and willow weft, coiled. a) Basket; b) peg.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-68498a,b, described as Round, shallow, bowl shape. Linear design in dark brown on deark, natural ground. Small opening in center closed with small wood peg, herringbone rim. Yucca warp, sumac and willow weft, coiled. a) Basket; b) peg.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-68498a,b, described as Round, shallow, bowl shape. Linear design in dark brown on deark, natural ground. Small opening in center closed with small wood peg, herringbone rim. Yucca warp, sumac and willow weft, coiled. a) Basket; b) peg.

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