Trinket Basket and Cover depicting a Gila Monster

Cahuilla
California culture

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collected 1905

Grass, Sumac, and rush dyed with Sea Blight

Overall: 3 11/16 × 4 1/8 × 7 9/16 in. (9.4 × 10.5 × 19.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9303

Geography

Place Made: Torres Martinez Reservation, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: California Culture

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Torres Martinez Reservation, Thermal, California, probably April, 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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