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Object Number 995-29-10/73353
Display Title Large plaited wicker bowl with straight sides
Descriptions
Object Description Large plaited wicker bowl with straight sides and a concave base. Badly faded with yellow bottom and sides with encircling lines in alternating colors which may have been purple, natural, rust, yellow, and green. Made of sumac twigs covered with dyed rabbitbrush.
Inventory Description Basket, bowl, convex base, straight sides, checkered band design
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Date 1920s-1940s
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Third Mesa
Dimensions Overall: 40.5 x 41.1 x 15.1 cm (15 15/16 x 16 3/16 x 5 15/16 in.) Distance (Diameter): 41.8 cm
Quantity 1
Label on object 995-29-10/73353
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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