Runner's Plaque (Awarded to Elmer Lomahaitewa)
Hopi
Southwest
about 1964
Galletta grass (foundation), yucca fiber (weft), native dyes, clay, coiling technique
Overall: 14 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (36 × 3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
164.42.15529
Geography
Place Made: Mishongnovi Pueblo, Second Mesa, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-January 5, 2020
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991..
The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, Massachusetts, March 10-May 29, 1994.
Publication History
Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Provenance
Hopi Craftman Exhibition, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona (won as a prize for a foot race by Elmer Lomahaitewa), July 1964; sold to Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978) for Dartmouth College Museum, July 1-4, 1964.
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