Wedding basket
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1922 from an unknown source using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1870-1910
- Catalog Number
- 11/5490
- Barcode
- 115490.000
- Culture/People
- probably Diné (Navajo) (attributed)
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Wedding basket
- Media/Materials
- Sumac, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Dyed, coiled
- Dimensions
- 35.1 x 8 cm
- Place
- Arizona; USA
- See related items
- Diné (Navajo)
- Containers and Vessels
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Southwest
- Record ID
- NMAI_124511
- Usage
- CC0
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