Wedding Basket
Agnes Kewanwytewa, Hopi / American, 1909 - 2003
Hopi
Southwest
1963
Yucca, dye and grass
Overall: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
164.42.15525
Geography
Place Made: Shungopovi, Second Mesa, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Provenance
Hopi Craftman Exhibition, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona (made by Agnes Kewanwytewa for her son Gene Fredricks and used at his wedding in 1963-1964), July 1964; sold to Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978) for Dartmouth College Museum, 1964.
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