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Miniature Burden Basket
Culture of Origin: Washoe1900-1920
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
Washington, DC, United States
This small-sized, conical pack basket has diagonal twining with three rows of plain twining below the bundle-coiled rim. There is some three-stand twining at the base tip of the basket. The stitches are in partially peeled ("sunburned") willow and dark bracken fern.
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Details
- Title: Miniature Burden Basket
- Creator: Culture of Origin: Washoe
- Date Created: 1900-1920
- Provenance: INTR 00700, Eunice "Frona" Wait Colburn
- Subject Keywords: Great Basin, Basin, Washoe, Native American, American Indian, North America, plain twining, miniature
- Type: Basketry
- Rights: U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
- Medium: willow, bracken fern
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