Piki Tray

Hopi
Southwest

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collected about 1940-1960

Sumac with yucca strips (edge finish); twill plaiting (center) and plain plaiting (margin) techniques

Overall: 18 1/2 × 22 7/16 × 3/16 in. (47 × 57 × 0.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Alfred Frank Whiting

174.4.25567

Geography

Place Made: Third Mesa, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southwest

Not on view

Exhibition History

Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991.

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

Sing yam si, Moenkopi Hopi Craftsman Exhibition, July 1936; sold to Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978); given to present collection, 1978.

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