Basket Tray depicting a Diamondback Rattlesnake

Lenora Linton LaChusa, Diegueno / American, 1877 - 1965
Kumeyaay (Diegueno)
California culture

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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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