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Object Number:NA8280
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Panamint
Provenience: California (State)
Culture Area: Great Basin Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Willow
Devil's Claw
Bird Quill
Technique:Basketry
Coiled
Credit Line:Gift of William K. Jewett, 1918
Other Number:5148 - Collector Number

Description

Coiled basket with vertical meandering design of black/brown lines with accent of white bird quill. Base of naturally colored brown fiber. Eight black/brown crosses span diameter of basket with central square of white bird quill. Top of basket decorated with black circle, from which eight lizards hang. Rim divided by black stripes.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

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