Utility Basket
Hualapai (Walapai)
Southwest
1929
Natural sumac (warp), weft of peeling sumac (light) and devil's claw (black) diagonal twining technique
Overall: 8 1/16 × 3 5/8 in. (20.5 × 9.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
29.5.4977
Geography
Place Made: 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
Collected and purchased by Professor Robert Addison Mc Kennan (Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) in Walapai Territory, Arizona, for the Dartmouth College Museum, July 1929.
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