The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 7, 2024
Jar-shaped Basket
1910
(Timbisha Shoshone (Panamint), 1883–1967)
Overall: 12.5 x 18.5 cm (4 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Some Timbisha Shoshone women continue traditions of basket weaving to the present day.Description
Sarah Hunter’s basketry is noted for geometricized motifs reminiscent of the animals depicted in petroglyphs on canyon walls in the Death Valley region. Here they include pronghorn mountain sheep, deer, and birds, along with humans, all created in light-brown bulrush against a honey-colored willow ground. Traditional Indigenous basket weavers, who have exhaustive knowledge of the plant world, tend, harvest, and prepare their own materials. If stages of the process are not done properly and at the right time, color will be uneven and stitches will twist and split.- "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67. Mentioned: p. 65 www.jstor.org
- Native North America Basket Rotation (Native North America rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022).Gallery 231 - Native North American Basket Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 3, 2015-August 15, 2016).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1917.454