Object Details
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by Mary Elizabeth Norris (Yurok, 1908-1990, daughter of Nellie Norris and sister of Ella Norris); given to her son Evan J. Norris (Yurok) in 1990; donated to NMAI by Evan J. Norris in 2007 on behalf of family of Mary Elizabeth Norris.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Yurok
- Artist/Maker
- bottle by Nellie Williams Norris (Mrs. William Norris), Yurok, ca. 1867-1926); cap by Ella Norris (Ellen Leah Norris/Mrs. Norman Lewis Rabe), Yurok, 1899-1982
- Donor
- Evan J. Norris, Yurok
- Previous owner
- Evan J. Norris, Yurok
- Mary Elizabeth Norris, Yurok, 1908-1990
- Honoree
- Mary Elizabeth Norris, Yurok, 1908-1990
- Date created
- bottle 1924; cap circa 1926
- Object Name
- Basket-covered bottle
- Media/Materials
- Willow, spruce root, maidenhair fern stem, bear grass
- Techniques
- Twined
- Dimensions
- 41 x 15 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
