Plateau & Great Basin
The objects from the Plateau and the Great Basin represent the Nimi’puu, Wasco, Klamath, Modoc, Ute, Mono, Paiute, Shoshone, Walla Walla, and Kiktat peoples, and range from basketry and clothing to contemporary works.
Nimi'puu (Nez Perce) | Plateau
Quirt
collected January 1879
13.8.702
Nimi'puu (Nez Perce) | Plateau
Cattle Whip
collected January 1879
13.8.703
possibly George Washakie, Shoshone / American, 1873 - 1913 | Shoshone | Great Basin | possibly Cadzi Cody (Codsiogo), Shoshone / American, 1865 - 1912
Pictorial Elk Hide Painting
1905
163.4.14830
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, French Cree / Shoshone / Salish / American, 1940 - 2025 | Salish (Flathead) | Plateau | Shoshone | Cree
The Rancher
2002
2005.13
Mike Williams, Paiute / American, born about 1956 | Paiute | Great Basin
Male Canvasback Duck Decoy [one of a pair]
2009
2009.55.1
Mike Williams, Paiute / American, born about 1956 | Paiute | Great Basin
Female Canvasback Duck Decoy (one of a pair)
2009
2009.55.2
Klamath | Plateau
Utility Basket
late 19th century
44.18.8727
Annie Kinsman, Mono / American, 1881 - 1990 | Great Basin | Kutzadika'a (Mono Paiute)
Trinket Basket
about 1900
46.17.9307
Washoe (Washo) | Great Basin
Basket
about 1906
46.17.9356
Chemehuevi | Great Basin | Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute)
Burden Basket
about 1904
46.17.9359
Paviotso (Northern Paiute) | Great Basin
Water Bottle Basket
about 1907
46.17.9369
Klikitat | Plateau
Pack and Berry Basket
19th or 20th century
51.19.12708
Nimi'puu (Nez Perce) | Plateau
Embroidered wallet
collected 1921-1922
51.32.12848
Plateau | Unknown people (Plateau)
Bag
late 19th-early 20th century
985.47.26527
Great Basin | Paviotso (Northern Paiute)
Doll representing a Yerrington Colony Pauite Woman
1940s or 1950s
987.35.26786
Shoshone | Great Basin | Esther Ute Tyler, Shoshone / American, 1905 - 1982 | Amelia Tyler, Shoshone / American, born 1925
Doll representing a Shoshone Woman with her Baby in a Cradleboard
1946
987.35.26848
Paternal Great Grandmother of Michael Dorris
Beaded Vest
1913
998.52.30370