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Covered Carrying Basket

Salish, 1899

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Salish

Covered Carrying Basket

Salish, 1899

Physical Qualities Cedar root, dyed grass, 6 × 6 1/2 × 11 in. (15.3 × 16.5 × 28 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number 1980.472a-b
Rectangular basket with round corners, triangles on terraced zigzag stripes; golden tan ground. All over imbrication. Coiled.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1980; Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore.
Katzenberg, Dena. And eagles sweep across the sky. Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, cat. no. 30, p. 89, ill

Inscribed: tag in file: 'Klikitat Salish'

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