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ProvenanceKania-Ferrin Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.307.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 330.
Culture
Nisqually
Nisqually Basket
Date1890-1900
MediumCedar root, cedar splint, beargrass (xerophyllum), red cedar bark (thuja), horsetail (equisitum)
DimensionsOverall: 7 × 15 in. (17.8 × 38.1 cm)
Object numberT0580
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Label TextThe Nisqually, a small tribe from the southern area of the Puget Sound in Washington State, produced beautiful and elaborately patterned baskets. The overall design on the basket is a broad serrated zigzag with small curvilinear floral and vine motifs tucked in between. The maker of this basket imbricated, or overlapped, several types of grasses onto the cedar root foundation to achieve specific colors. She used bear grass for the golden background, red cedar bark for the reddish hue, horsetail for black and for the very pale yellow, dyed bear grass.ProvenanceKania-Ferrin Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyVincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.307.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 330.
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