Basket Tray depicting a Diamondback Rattlesnake
Lenora Linton LaChusa, Diegueno / American, 1877 - 1965
Kumeyaay (Diegueno)
California culture
collected 1905
Grass, sumac, rush, and sea blight
Overall: 1 1/16 × 10 11/16 in. (2.7 × 27.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9318
Geography
Place Made: Mesa Grande, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: California Culture
Not on view
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Provenance
Made by Lenora Linton LaChusa, Mesa Grande, California; Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Mesa Grande, California, probably, April 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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