Object Details
- Culture/People
- Washoe (Washo)
- Previous owner
- Cohn’s Emporium (Emporium Collection of Amerind Art)
- Seller
- Cohn’s Emporium (Emporium Collection of Amerind Art)
- Seller agent
- Abe Cohn (Abram Cohn), Non-Indian, 1859-1934
- MAI agent
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Expedition
- Mark Raymond Harrington Nevada Expedition (1924-1927)
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased in 1924 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) from Cohn's Emporium (Carson City, Nevada), an Indian arts and basket store operated by Abe Cohn (1859-1934), during the Mark Raymond Harrington Nevada Expedition.
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- Catalog Number
- 13/3912
- Barcode
- 133912.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Willow, bracken fern root
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Place
- Nevada; USA
- See related items
- Washoe (Washo)
- Containers and Vessels
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_143581
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6a4fe6259-6665-42f5-b1a6-e022e988357e
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