Miniature Round Basket (late 1800s-early 1900s): Art, History and Details

Miniature Round Basket (late 1800s-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 only five 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 Round Basket
• Date: late 1800s-early 1900s
• Culture: California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century
• Type: Basketry
• Technique: plant materials
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.)
• Collection: AA - Native North America
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1917.540

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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