Basket figure in the form of a turtle
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Tohono O'odham (Papago)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- DOI Indian Craft Shop (Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop)
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop (Washington, DC) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1965
- Catalog Number
- 25/8655
- Barcode
- 258655.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Basket figure in the form of a turtle
- Media/Materials
- Vegetal Fiber, yucca fiber, devil's claw/martynia
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Dimensions
- 28.2 x 17.6 x 7.4 cm
- Place
- Arizona; USA
- See related items
- Tohono O'odham (Papago)
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_274601
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws600607eda-ad84-4310-9c18-b2d12626ee0f
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