Jar-shaped Basket (c. 1900–1910): Art, History and Details

Jar-shaped Basket (c. 1900–1910) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The figures woven in the lower register of this basket were borrowed from basketry of the Yokuts, a California group that lived to the west of Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone territory.

Object facts

• Title: Jar-shaped Basket
• Date: c. 1900–1910
• Culture: Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone
• Type: Basketry
• Technique: willow, bulrush, yucca root; coiled (3 rods)
• Dimensions: Overall: 14.3 x 22 cm (5 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
• Collection: AA - Native North America
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1917.466

A detail from the museum

The figures woven in the lower register of this basket were borrowed from basketry of the Yokuts.

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.

View the collection record

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