Panamint baskets are usually coiled and are traditionally decorated with geometric designs. Tick marks around the rim are another traditional element. By about 1920 the designs on Panamint baskets were becoming increasingly complex, incorporating figurative motifs such as humans, birds, animals, and butterflies.

• Collection History Provenance

  The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

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• Type of Item basket
• Culture Shoshone, Panamint
• Material willow, yucca, desert bulrush
• Measurements height 5.0 in, diameter 7.5 in (overall)

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• Creator Panamint artist

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• Creation Date during 1920

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• Categories California; Baskets