Collection: Nagy

Item Number: NC0009

Category: Basket

Region: California

Tribe: Mono - Western Mono

Period: 1900-1925

Materials: Sedge root; bracken fern root and redbud.

Description: Large polychrome coiled basket with a top to bottom radiating stepped design, and various other design elements.

Dimensions: Width 20.5 inches; Height 10.375 inches

Provenance:

Minnie Maxwell (aka Mrs. Ole Johson and Mrs. Margaret M. McPherson)
Howard Lewis, 1965

References:

Letter from Howard Lewis, November 22, 1986, describing the collection of this basket from Mrs. McPherson 1n 1965.

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