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Miniature Burden Basket

Culture of Origin: Washoe1900-1920

U.S. Department of the Interior Museum

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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  • 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
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum

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