Wedding Basket

c. 1895

Pomo
Northern California, United States

Given to a bride at her betrothal, twined dowry baskets are some of the largest and most complex objects woven by Pomo artists. The basic pattern of this basket includes different sizes of serrated design motifs that are animated with topknot feathers from the California quail, imported glass beads, and indigenous clamshell beads.

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Pomo
Title: Wedding Basket
Place: California (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890–1900
Medium: Plant fibers, feathers, and glass and clamshell beads
Dimensions: 61 × 63.5 cm (24 × 25 in.)
Credit Line: Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim, Jr., Endowment; African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 2000.323
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Richard F. Townsend and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “The Art Institute of Chicago New Galleries,” Tribal Arts XVI-1/62 (Winter 2011): 63, figure 9 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 107, cat. 83 (ill.).

Terry DeWald, Tucson, AZ, by 2000 [incoming permanent receipt RX22896, Sept. 22, 2000, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.

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