Western Apache, White Mountain Apache, and others
Burden Basket
Western Apache (White Mountain or San Carlos Apache), 1900
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- Culture: Western Apache
- Culture: White Mountain Apache
- Culture: San Carlos Apache
Burden Basket
Western Apache (White Mountain or San Carlos Apache), 1900
Physical Qualities
Willow, buckskin, tin, rawhide, 15 × 19 1/2 in. (38.1 × 49.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.B.218
Deep bowl with sides flaring to wide opening; horizontal bands of outlined and plain zigzag stripes; four strips of buckskin sewn vertically around basket; long buckskin fringe with tin "tinklers" or noise-makers sewn intermittently around rim; buckskin fringe and red cloth around base. (entered by M.Dodd 1/14/11)
Twined.
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, 1977:130
Inscribed: None.
