Basket bowl
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by botanist Richard Felger in 1963; acquired by MAI in 1963 through an exchange with Ralph C. Altman (1909-1967, a primitive art dealer and later director of the Fowler Museum at the University of California at Los Angeles).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1963
- Catalog Number
- 23/3490
- Barcode
- 233490.000
- Culture/People
- Comcaac (Seri)
- Collector
- Richard Felger, Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- Ralph C. Altman, Non-Indian, 1909-1967
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket bowl
- Media/Materials
- Torote/Jatropha fiber
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Place
- El Desemboque; Pitiquito Municipality; Sonora State; Mexico
- See related items
- Comcaac (Seri)
- Containers and Vessels
- Record ID
- NMAI_248796
- Usage
- CC0
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