Gift Basket (1895): Art, History and Details

Gift Basket (1895) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

These baskets were probably created to be sold to non-Indian collectors and tourists. The feathered basket, however, is based on an older type that was given as a treasured gift on various occasions, including ceremonies that marked the stages of life (birth, puberty, marriage, and so forth).

Object facts

• Title: Gift Basket
• Date: 1895
• Culture: California, Pomo, Lytton Springs, Alexander Valley, late 19th-early 20th century
• Type: Basketry
• Technique: Bulrush, Sedge; Coiled (3 rods)
• Dimensions: Diameter: 5 x 11.6 cm (1 15/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
• Collection: AA - Native North America
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1917.521

Collection credit

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

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67.

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