Pair of Baskets
CultureWasco, Columbia River region, Oregon
Dateca. 1880
MediumNatural and dyed hemp, glass and brass beads, native tanned leather, and native pigment
DimensionsPart: 5 1/8 × 4 3/8 inches (13.02 × 11.11 cm)
Part: 5 × 4 1/8 inches (12.7 × 10.48 cm)
Part: 5 × 4 1/8 inches (12.7 × 10.48 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: American Indian Deaccession Fund
Object number2016.78
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DescriptionA pair of matching cylindrical shaped woven baskets with leather wrapped rims, joined together by a blue glass and brass beaded leather thong. Encircling each basket are two human skeletal figures in a horizonatal position, each basket furhter embellished with a series of ten beaded thongs.Exhibition HistoryNative American Basketry: The Hartman Collection, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO, January 1, 2011 - March 31, 1996.
Bruce Hartman, Prairie Village, KS;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016.
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Bruce Hartman, Materpieces of Native American Basketry, exh. cat. (Amarillo, Texas: Miller National Corporation, 1986), 17.
Mary Dodds Schlick, Columbia River Basktery: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994), 46, 47.
Bruce Bernstein, Native American Basketry: The Hartman Collection (St. Joseph: The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, 1996), plate 19, 51.
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