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Object Number:38-26-1
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Washo
Provenience: United States of America
Nevada
Carson City
Culture Area: Great Basin Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Willow
Bracken Fern
Technique:Coiled
Height: 18 cm
Outside Diameter:25 cm
Credit Line:Gift of G. G. Green and J. Alden Mason, 1938
Other Number:27 - Other Number
156 - Other Number
104 - Other Number
3271 - Other Number

Description

Coiled willow with delicate design in fern-root. Fine: 20 stitches (at bottom) and 30 stitches (at rim) to the inch.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Discovering the Past: Highlights from the University Museum (IBM) (20 Jun 1989 - 20 Aug 1989) View Objects in Exhibition
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 51, pl. 48View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Coe, Ralph T. 1977. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art.. Kansas City. Nelson Gallery of Art. pg. 252 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 211/586View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Feder, Norman. 1965. American Indian Art: New Shorter Edition.. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pg. 151 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 89/Fig 92View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] d'Harnoncourt, Rene, and Douglas, Frederic H. 1941. Indian Art of the United States.. New York, New York. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. pg. 204 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 126/Fig 58View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Wardle, Harriet N. 1939. "American Indian Baskets". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 7. no. 3. pg. 10-13 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 13, pl. VIIIView Objects related to this Actual Citation

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