Tray-Shaped Basket

Hopi people, Native American

  • Titles Tray-Shaped Basket (Descriptive)
  • Medium woven vines
  • Credit Line Gift of the Birmingham Public Library, 1978.48
  • Work Type basket
  • Classification Containers

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Full-sized Kiowa cradle; buffalo hide beaded in a background of turquoise with stylized floral and triangle designs in colors of red, white, dark green, cobalt, and greasy yellow. Inside of cradle lined in mattress ticking. Separate hide pieces attached at the top of cradle and beaded with two diamond designs of the same colors as the cradle is tacked down to the boards with red painted round brass buttons and hide dangles with metal cones. Cradle is attached to thick boards with upper half painted in blue, red, and yellow and brass tacks following the color designs.
Alternately twined and plaited. One inch top rim twined in raven's tail skip stitch. No lugs. Some breaks.
Covered Basket, Tlingit people, Native American, spruce root
Black and white photograph of four Native American women wearing jingle dresses and face-covering bandanas, blurred Mount Rushmore in background.