Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0091-0030 | |
| Category | Basketry | |
| Object Name | Basket | |
| Culture | Walapai | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | Northwestern Arizona | |
| Maker's Name | Unknown | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. early 1900s | |
| Collection Name | N/A | |
| Materials | Willow (Salix sp.) shoots; Red willow (Salix bonplandiana ?) shoots | |
| Description | Deep cylindrical basket with rounded base and vertical slightly flared sides, woven in plain twining technique at the start, and then in diagonal twining for the remainder of the basket; Warps are bent over at rim and incorporated into reinforcing bundle that is coil-wrapped; Warp material is whole, unpeeled willow shoots and weft material is split unpeeled willow shoots that are woven with the bark side facing inward; Designs are woven of split, unpeeled red willow shoots and consist of 3 bands of alternating dark and light diagonal bars (woven of red willow with bark facing outward and other willow with bark facing inward, respectively) that encircle sides of basket; Final two rows of twining below rim are woven with the bark side of the willow facing outward; Coil wrapping on rim bundle alternates light (split willow with bark facing inward) and dark (red willow with bark facing outward) blocks of color. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Height = 22.2, Max Diam = 22.6 | |