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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2020 School for Advanced Research.

Horsehair basket

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2020 School for Advanced Research.

Horsehair basket

Date: before 2013
Artist or Maker: Linda Aguilar (b. 1946)
Dimensions:
3 × 7.2 cm (1 3/16 × 2 13/16 in.)
Medium: horsehair | thread | glass beads | abalone shell
Credit Line: Anonymous gift, 2013.
Object Number: SAR.2016-1-3
Not on view
DescriptionBlack coiled horsehair basket. Upper part of basket is stitched with black thread, base is stitched with off-white thread. Outside of basket is decorated with two curved vertical rows of iridescent white seed beads placed opposite each other. Abalone shell button decorates the interior center bottom of the basket.
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