Basket

California, or Oregon, Native American

Late 19th-early 20th century

  • Titles Basket (Descriptive)
  • Medium straw
  • Dimensions 4 x 8 in. Diam. (10.2 x 20.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1956.48.239
  • Work Type basket
  • Classification Containers

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Spruce root basket of cylindrical shape. Most of the weaving is alternate plaiting and twining. A 3/4" band at the top is twined. Somewhat broken. No lugs though lugs have been on at an earlier time.
String of angular blue glass beads
Wearing blanket in basic shape of a rectangle, with bottom side of rectangle in a shallow downward V-shape; long fringe from warp threads extend from bottom. Bilaterally symmetrical patterns fill the space, composed of abstracted animal faces and other zoomorphic design elements.
Rug (Eastern Reservation style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool with aniline and vegetal dyes