Northern Paiute
Beaded Basket
Northern Paiute, 1939-1948
Scroll
Northern Paiute
Beaded Basket
Northern Paiute, 1939-1948
Physical Qualities
Willow, glass beads, thread netting, 3 1/4 × 5 in. (8.2 × 12.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.B.200
Small seed beads have been popular ornaments on American Indian objects since the middle of the nineteenth century. Three-dimensional surfaces are easily covered with a netting stitch. The netted covering is secured to the basket at the rim and at the base. Single threads pass through two or three beads and are then paired with an adjacent thread and passed through a single bead thus creating the netted effect.
Photo:
W. C. Orchard, Beads and Beadwork of the American Indians, 1929
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
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: None.
