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Object Number 972-45-10/51884
Display Title Large basketry vessel using a four strand starting knot with bundle coiling
Descriptions
Object Description Large basketry vessel using a four strand starting knot with fibre bundle coiling. A flattened base, flaring body decorated with frieze of human, animal and geometric motifs. Diameter 18.375".
Inventory Description Basket, bowl, flaring sides, brown anthropomorphic and animal designs
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Pima
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Southwest
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 19.6 x 46.8 x 46 cm (7 11/16 x 18 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 972-45-10/51884
Provenance
Collector Grandmother of Mrs. G. Prescott Low (1890)
Donor Mrs. G. Prescott Low (1972)

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