Basket

Museum number:
2-50120
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2736
Object count:
1
Description:
Coiled, basin shaped. Straw colored star in center; encircling red bands with triangular designs in brown above and below.
Donor:
Merritt Gibson Barton
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Florence Belle Barton
Collection date:
ca. 1910-1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Ritual basket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 33.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-50120, described as Coiled, basin shaped. Straw colored star in center; encircling red bands with triangular designs in brown above and below.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-50120, described as Coiled, basin shaped. Straw colored star in center; encircling red bands with triangular designs in brown above and below.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 2-50120, described as Coiled, basin shaped. Straw colored star in center; encircling red bands with triangular designs in brown above and below.

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