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Details
Object Name

basket

Culture

Kawaiisu?

Western Mono?

Yokuts?

Date

before 1925

Materials

Sedge root coiled on a grass bundle foundation, design in black-dyed bracken fern root, overcast rim finish

Dimensions

14 in x 5 3/4 in (35.5 cm x 14.5 cm)

Credit Line

H. Shumway Lee Collection

Object ID

813.G.52

Institution

Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West

Category

Art and Artifacts


Remarks

California basket, possibly Yokuts, Western Mono or Kawaiisu, sedge root coiled on a grass bundle foundation, design in bracken fern root, acquired by the Museum 1959.

Subject

bundle foundation

Pictured

meanders

zigzags

overcast rims

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