Parching basket

Serrano
California culture

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about 1905

Grass (foundation), weft of natural (tan) and sea blight-dyed sumac (black), weft of rim, rush (gold-brown), coiling technique

Overall: 5 7/8 × 16 5/16 in. (15 × 41.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9321

Geography

Place Made: Banning, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: California Culture

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

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), California, probably, April 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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