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Basketry Lidded Bowl

Artist Lucy Telles (North American Indian, Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute, Central California, 1885 - 1955)
CultureYosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute, Central California
Dateca. 1923
MediumSedge root, bracken fern root, and redbud shoots
DimensionsOverall (including lid): 7 5/8 × 11 1/4 inches (19.37 × 28.58 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Jedel Family Foundation
Object number2018.43.1,2
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 207
DescriptionSpherical-shaped lidded basket encircled with patterns of butterflies, humming birds and flowers.Exhibition History

"Masterpieces of Native American Basketry," Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, June 15-August 3, 1986, unnumbered.

"Native American Basketry: The Hartman Collection," The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri, January 11-March 31, 1996, no. 16.

Provenance

Purchased by Wilma and Edward Hartman, Lee's Summit, MO, 1980;

By descent to Bruce Hartman, Prairie Village, KS, 2003;

Purchased from Bruce Hartman funded by The Jedel Family Foundation, Liberty, MO 2018.

Published References

"Masterpieces of Native American Basketry," exh. cat. (Canyon, Texas: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 1986), 5.

Bates, Craig D. and Martha J. Lee, "Tradition and Innovation: A Basket History of the Indians of the Yosemite-Mono Lake Area," (San Francisco, California: Yosemite Association, 1991), 94, 95.

Spencer, Mark J. and Bruce Bernstein, "Native American Basketry: The Hartman Collection," exh. cat. (St. Joseph, Missouri: The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, 1996), front cover, 47.

Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.




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