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38-26-1
From: United States of America | Nevada | Carson City
Curatorial Section: American
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Object Number
38-26-1
Current Location
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Culture
Washo
Provenience
United States of America | Nevada | Carson City
Culture Area
Great Basin Culture Area
Section
American
Materials
Willow | Bracken Fern
Technique
Coiled
Description
Coiled willow with delicate design in fern-root. Fine: 20 stitches (at bottom) and 30 stitches (at rim) to the inch.
Height
18 cm
Outside Diameter
25 cm
Credit Line
Gift of G. G. Green and J. Alden Mason, 1938
Other Number
27 - Collector Number | 156 - Collector Number | 104 - Dealer's Number | 3271 - Other Number
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Williams, Lucy F. 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, 2003. See: p. 51, pl. 48
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Coe, Ralph T. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art . Kansas City: Nelson Gallery of Art, 1977. See: Page 211/586
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Feder, Norman. American Indian Art: New Shorter Edition . Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1965. Page/Fig./Plate: 151 See: Page 89/Fig 92
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Douglas, Frederic H., and Rene d'Harnoncourt. Indian Art of the United States . New York, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941. See: Page 126/Fig 58
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Wardle, Harriet N. "American Indian Baskets ." The University Museum Bulletin 7, no. 3. (1939): 10-13. See: p. 13, pl. VIII
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