Lidded Basket
Attributed to
Clara Darden
(Native American Indian, Chitimacha, 1829 - 1910)
Dateca. 1900
MediumNatural and dyed river cane
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 × 7 × 7 inches (21.59 × 17.78 × 17.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Aletha Simon
Object number2016.42.1,2
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionLidded basket, square in form with slightly convex sides and top, the surface covered with repeated geometric desings in orange, black and tan.ProvenanceColgate-Grace Rumbough Collection, NY;
Purchased from Douglas Ewing by Aletha Simon, November 22, 1976;
Mrs. Aletha Simon, Overland Park, KS, 1976-2016;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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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