Basketry cap
Chemehuevi
Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute)
Great Basin
about 1904
Willow
Overall: 4 15/16 × 8 1/4 in. (12.5 × 21 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9357
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Headwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Great Basin
Not on view
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Nevada, March, 1904; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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