Miniature Oval Basket (early 1900s): Art, History and Details

Miniature Oval Basket (early 1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Miniature baskets were made to demonstrate the basket-maker’s virtuoso skill, and these tiny marvels seem to be no exception—the smallest are just a few millimeters wide but still patterned. For such fine work, dexterity was required as much for preparation of materials as for weaving.

Object facts

• Title: Miniature Oval Basket
• Date: early 1900s
• Culture: California, Pomo, 20th century (?)
• Type: Basketry
• Technique: coiled
• Dimensions: Overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.)
• Collection: AA - Native North America
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1917.539

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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