Piki Tray
Hopi
Southwest
collected about 1940-1960
Sumac with yucca strips (edge finish); twill plaiting (center) and plain plaiting (margin) techniques
Overall: 18 1/2 × 22 7/16 × 3/16 in. (47 × 57 × 0.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Alfred Frank Whiting
174.4.25567
Geography
Place Made: Third Mesa, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Exhibition History
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991.
Publication History
Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Provenance
Sing yam si, Moenkopi Hopi Craftsman Exhibition, July 1936; sold to Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978); given to present collection, 1978.
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