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Doctor's Basket, Canoe- shaped

1890

California, Pomo, 19th century

Coiled, with shell and yellow glass beads

Overall: 14.5 x 44 cm (5 11/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price 1917.480

Location

not on view

Description

Oblong baskets like this one, which range in size from miniatures to examples more than four feet long, are sometimes said to have been used by native doctors to store medicines and paraphernalia such as rattles. This one, however, probably was made not for native use but for sale to a turn-of-the-century collector.

Citations
"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67. Mentioned: p. 65 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh, (March 7 - May 30, 2010)

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 7-May 30, 2010).

Gallery 231 - Native North American Basket Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 5, 2013-August 18, 2014).

Gallery 231 - Native North American Basket Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 2, 2019-August 21, 2020).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1917.480