Basket

California, or Oregon, Native American

Late 19th-early 20th century

  • Titles Basket (Descriptive)
  • Medium straw
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1956.48.239
  • Object Name basket
  • Classification Containers

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Rattle in shape of a raven carrying on its back a reclining figure with bent knees and extended tongue human figure is joined by his tongue to a frog which is held in the beak of a kingfisher bird whose head is depicted without a body and located closest to the handle of the rattle The underside of the rattle the ravens belly has the abstracted features of a human face
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To the loop is attached a string of beads on a buckskin thong There are twenty three spherical blue eight spherical red four large blue angular six small blue angular one piece of pearl from a knife handle