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Presentation Bowl
The collection record classifies this work as basketry. It is dated 1880–90. Recorded culture or place: Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone.
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- Museum title
- Presentation Bowl
- Date
- 1880–90
- Culture / origin
- Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone
- Materials and technique
- devil's claw, sumac, yucca root, orange-shafted flicker (woodpecker) quills; coiled (2 rod and bundle of deer grass or basket grass)
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 21.5 x 48 cm (8 7/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1917.482
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This basket was made for the Euro-American collectors’ market in the early 1900s but it is modeled on basketry bowls from which the Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone once served food. When used indigenously, the main view would have been of the interior. The two small, pink crosses, made of flicker (woodpecker) quills, may be a maker’s mark. Made-for-sale baskets testify to Indigenous women’s truly creative, resilient responses to forces that endangered their livelihoods and existence.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price · CC0
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