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Burden Basket

Western Apache (White Mountain or San Carlos Apache), 1900-1932

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Burden Basket

Western Apache (White Mountain or San Carlos Apache), 1900-1932

Physical Qualities Willow, buckskin, tin, rawhide, 15 × 19 1/2 in. (38.1 × 49.5 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number 1953.220.B.218
Deep bowl with sides flaring to wide opening; horizontal bands of outlined and plain zigzag stripes; four strips of buckskin sewn vertically around basket; long buckskin fringe with tin "tinklers" or noise-makers sewn intermittently around rim; buckskin fringe and red cloth around base. (entered by M.Dodd 1/14/11) Twined.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Katzenberg, D. S., & Baltimore Museum of Art. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West : [exhibition]. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:130

Inscribed: None.

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