Object Details
- Collection History
- Acquired from the artist by Brenda Shears Holland (MAI staff member) during a basketmaking demonstration at the Hunter College Gallery (New York, New York) in 1982; donated to MAI by Brenda Shears Holland in 1986.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Pomo
- Artist/Maker
- Elsie Allen (Elsie Comanche Allen), Pomo, 1899-1990
- Previous owner
- Brenda Shears (Brenda Shears Holland), Non-Indian
- Donor
- Brenda Shears (Brenda Shears Holland), Non-Indian
- Date created
- 1982
- Object Name
- Basket "start"
- Media/Materials
- Willow, sedge root, redbud
- Techniques
- Twined
- Dimensions
- 85 cm
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
