Doctor's Basket, Canoe- shaped
Unknown Artist
1890
Medium
coiled, with shell and yellow glass beads
Dimensions
14.5 × 44 cm
Classification
Basketry
Department
Art of the Americas
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price
Accession Number
1917.480
About this artwork
Oblong baskets like this one, which range in size from miniatures to examples more than four feet long, are sometimes said to have been used by native doctors to store medicines and paraphernalia such as rattles. This one, however, probably was made not for native use but for sale to a turn-of-the-century collector.