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Infant’s Carrying Basket

Hupa, 1899

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Hupa

Infant’s Carrying Basket

Hupa, 1899

Physical Qualities Hazel shoots, 27 15/16 × 10 5/8 × 6 11/16 in. (71 × 27 × 17 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number 1953.220.B.60
Vertical cradle basket with openwork twining; closed pocket bottom and curving sides rising to carrying loop. Wrapped rim. Twined.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
"The Pliant Reed: Native American Baskets" (Organized by BMA, for circulation) 1983-84 (cat 26)
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, 1977:99
Badder, Susan S. The Pliant Reed: Native American Baskets. (1983) [pamphlet]

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