Jar-shaped Basket
Medium
Willow, bulrush; coiled (3 rods)
Dimensions
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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
1917.454
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About this artwork
Sarah Hunter’s basketry is noted for geometricized motifs reminiscent of the animals depicted in petroglyphs on canyon walls in the Death Valley region. Here they include pronghorn mountain sheep, deer, and birds, along with humans, all created in light-brown bulrush against a honey-colored willow ground. Traditional Indigenous basket weavers, who have exhaustive knowledge of the plant world, tend, harvest, and prepare their own materials. If stages of the process are not done properly and at th...