Basket
86-20-37
From: United States of America | Arizona
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 86-20-37 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Navajo |
| Provenience | United States of America | Arizona |
| Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
| Period | Late 19th Century |
| Date Made | ca. 1890 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Willow (uncertain) |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | "Wedding" basket with two concentric stepped pyramids connected at one point by two parallel lines; coiled, using willow; aniline dye. Condition: considerable weft damage, especially on the bottom. Tag on inside bottom of basket with typed text: "very old wedding basket "Navajo" about 75 years old" |
| Height | 7.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 32.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of W. Disston Anderson, Class of 42, 1986 |
| Other Number | 18 - Collector Number |
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