Basket

Artist Zodwa Maphumulo (Zulua, South African, born 1960)

CultureZulu

Dateca. 2006

MediumTelephone wire

DimensionsOverall: 5 3/8 × 16 13/16 inches (13.65 × 42.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025

Object number2025.56.5

On View

Not on view

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DescriptionThis colorful figurative basket was woven from brightly colored plastic-insulated copper telephone wire. The basket includes both geometric and figurative elements, incorporating people, trees, houses, and animals.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Reflections on Movement, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, May 17-June 28, 2024.

Provenance

International Folk Art Market, Santa Fe, NM, July 9, 2006;

Purchased at the International Folk Art Market by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Santa Fe, NM, July 9, 2006-2010 [1];

His bequest to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2010-2025;

The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

NOTES:

[1] According to object documentation provided by the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts at the time of the object's gift, see Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. An object sale tag specifies that the work was purchased from The BAT Shop booth at the International Folk Art Market. The shop forms part of a complex called The Bartel Arts Trust Center in Durban, South Africa. The shop sells African art and craft from KwaZulu-Natal.

Published References

Braulio Chavez, Zoe Kountoupes-Wilson, and Julia Gibson, Reflections on Movement (Santa Fe: Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2024), 15, (repro.).

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