Trinket Basket Decorated with the Initials R.T. and a Figure of a Baseball Player
Mother of a Raphael Tortes, Luiseño, unknown dates
Luiseño (Luiseno)
California culture
collected 1905 or 1907
Grass, sumac, rush, and sea blight; coiled, grass foundation, counter-clockwise direction
Overall: 3 5/16 × 4 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (8.4 × 12.2 × 17.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9314
Geography
Place Made: Riverside, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: California Culture
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015
ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-July 15, 2019
Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.
Publication History
Tom Willman, "Sherman Institute in the Golden Age of Native American Sport", in Riverside Historical Society Journal, Riverside, CA, 25, December 2018, pp. 28-42, ill. p. 32.
Provenance
Made by Mrs. Tortese [mother of Raphael Tortese, possibly Tortes], a student at the Sherman Indian School, Riverside, California]; selected the Sherman Indian School's Superintendent Harwood H. Hall (1859-1928) for Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and BIA Inspector Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Riverside, California, 1905 or 1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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