Presentation Bowl (1900): Art, History and Details

Presentation Bowl (1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This fine bowl was created by a weaver of the Yokuts, who lived in California’s San Joaquin Valley to the west of Koso (Panamint) Shoshone territory. Shared design motifs indicate contact between the two areas. For instance, the humans who appear to be holding hands in one register on this basket also occur on a small Koso (Panamint) Shosone basket in the collection.

Object facts

• Title: Presentation Bowl
• Date: 1900
• Culture: Native North America, California, Yokuts
• Type: Basketry
• Technique: redbud, bracken fern; coiled, grass foundation
• Dimensions: Overall: 23 x 48 cm (9 1/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
• Collection: AA - Native North America
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1917.492

A detail from the museum

This fine bowl was created by a weaver of the Yokuts, who lived in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

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.
• Crawford, Virginia. “Artistic Basketry of the North American Indian.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 7 (September 1986): 278–297.

View the collection record

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