Sifting Basket
Maidu or Hupa
California culture
late 19th century
Willow and open twining technique
Overall: 4 5/16 × 10 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (11 × 25.5 × 29 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Ida Farr Miller
44.18.8736
Geography
Place Made: Central Sierra Nevada or Hoopa Valley, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: California Culture
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 by Ellen Frances Burpee Farr (1840-1907) (Mrs. Evarts Worcester Farr, Class of 1863W), Pasadena, California, between 1887-1906; given to her daughter, Ida Farr Miller (1863-1953), 1907; given to present collection, 1944.
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