Coiled; circular faded red design with black "flag-like" rectangular designs on top, reversed back design around bottom. Opening left in circular design.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
unknown
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:
1932
Context of use:
Design similar to Navaho wedding pattern.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Most old (19th cent.) baskets are decorated with traditional motifs such as square crosses (etc)...and encircling bands of red bordered with angular hooks or crosses." References: Whiteford, Andrew Hunter. Southwestern Indian Baskets. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, N.M. 1988. p. 36, Figure 27.