Akimel O'odham (Pima)
Burden Basket (Kiaka)
Akimel O'odham (Pima), 1899
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Akimel O'odham (Pima)
Burden Basket (Kiaka)
Akimel O'odham (Pima), 1899
Physical Qualities
Yucca, horsehair, wood, cactus, aniline dyes, cloth, 48 1/16 × 40 15/16 in. (122 × 104 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.B.166
Lacy openworked netting twined in a conical shape, suspended from round wooden withe, and supported by four staves converging at cone point; fiber mat, attached behind the basket to protect the Indian's back; fiber headband. Red and blue V forms on netting. (entered by M.Dodd 1/14/11)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore Museum of Art, "And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky," September 18-November 13, 1977
Katzenberg, D. S. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, no. 276, p. 142
