The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Gift Bowl

Gift Bowl

c. 1895
Location: not on view

Description

To allow spirits to circulate freely in a basket, some California weavers provide a spirit door: an intentional design irregularity that can be as subtle as a tiny break in a stitch or as obvious as a feather or a bead of a different color. The single green bead in this superb gift basket may be such a portal.
  • "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67. Mentioned: p. 65 www.jstor.org
  • Gallery 231 - Native North American Basket Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 2, 2019-August 21, 2020).
    Gallery 231 - Native North American Basket Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 5, 2013-August 18, 2014).
    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)
    The Basket Makers, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (November 26, 1985-March 23, 1986)
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1917.403