May Sam and Northern Paiute
Basket with Designs
Northern Paiute, 1889-1909
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Willow, bracken fern, 3 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (9.2 × 18.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.B.204
Designs Representing Houses, Arrow Points, Signal fires, Birds, and Hunters.
Speherical-Shaped basket. Highly stylized black animal figures with chevrons of stepped triangles on a tan ground. Sewn rim. (entered by M.Dodd 1/12/11)
Coiled.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI (1926-1953); Emporium Co., Carson, NV.
Katzenberg, D. S., & Baltimore Museum of Art. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West : [exhibition]. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:111
Inscribed: Label on inside: 'Emporium Co. Carson, NV/#6145/Tribe: Piute/Maker: (left blank)/Price: 15.00'. Tape label on bottom: '197B'.
