Square basket

Basket

Northwest Coast, Native American

Late 19th-early 20th century

  • Titles Basket (Descriptive)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1956.48.236
  • Object Name basket
  • Classification Containers

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Rug (Eastern Reservation style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool with aniline and vegetal dyes
Small pointed, or elbow, basket with handle, of tan cane in a basket weave pattern with a band of darker cane around the middle and a V pattern in the center.
Ceramic--creamy orange slip, painted over with black and orange--hatched panel of hooked wings between parallel bars
Beaded bag of black cloth, with triangular shaped flap folded over opening, and shoulder sash backed with pink silk. Organic decorative motifs on bag in pink, white, and green beads; sash decorated with repeating spiral and line motif in green, white, and pink beads. Sash trimmed in yellow silk, with silk rosettes at forked end of sash. Yarn tassels attached to bottom of bag.