Back Rest
29-43-194
Location: On Display in the Native North America Gallery
From: Southwest Colorado | Navajo Canyon | Southeastern Utah
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-43-194 |
| Current Location | Native North America Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Cliff Dweller |
| Provenience | Southwest Colorado | Navajo Canyon | Southeastern Utah |
| Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
| Date Made | 750-1300 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Gourd |
| Description | In excellent preservation. Uprights made of cedar or mountain mahogany, braced with wood lashed in loops. Back rest proper made of double row of canes lashed together and fastened to two cross sticks at top, with upper ends of canes covered with wide leaf yucca. |
| Length | 102.5 cm |
| Width | 57.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Charles D. Hazzard; subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1896 |
| Other Number | B/30 - Other Number |
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