Basket bowl
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected before 1930 by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948, a California basket collector and dealer); inherited by Grace Nicholson's assistant Thyra Maxwell (1903-1972); purchased by MAI from Thyra Maxwell in 1970.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 24/4108
- Barcode
- 244108.000
- Culture/People
- Maidu
- Collector
- Grace Nicholson, Non-Indian, 1877-1948
- Previous owner
- Grace Nicholson, Non-Indian, 1877-1948
- Thyra Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1903-1972
- Seller
- Thyra Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1903-1972
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket bowl
- Media/Materials
- Willow, bracken fern root
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Place
- Central California; California; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Maidu
- Containers and Vessels
- Record ID
- NMAI_259432
- Usage
- CC0
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