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Basket

MOA: University of British Columbia

3207/9

Dish shaped basket with rounded base, wide sloping wall and wrapped rim. Dark brown designs decorate both exterior and interior, with narrow colour blocks emanating off brown circle at centre, and surrounded by several layers of geometric line designs and colour blocks from the rim. Basket has a square where weaving starts, visible on underside.

  • Narrative

    Given to the donor by the late Dr. Murray Newman, and said to have belonged to his grandparents. His grandfather, Benjamin Tupper Newman (from Maine), had traveled around the American west in the 1920s and had an interest in Native American cultures.

  • Type of Item basket
  • Culture Akimel O'odham, Tohono O'odham
  • Material fern, willow wood
  • Measurements height 5.2 cm, diameter 25.5 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Sharon J. Proctor
  • Received from Sharon J. Proctor
  • Made in Arizona
  • Creation Date before 1930
  • Ownership Date before November 9, 2016
  • Acquisition Date on November 9, 2016
  • Item Classes basketry
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3207/0009

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