Basket bowl
- Date created
- 1820-1840
- Culture/People
- Washoe (Washo)
- Previous owner
- Maggie (unknown surname), Washoe (Washo)
- 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, but said to have been acquired from Maggie (Washoe) in 1880; acquired by Cohn’s Emporium (Carson City, Nevada), an Indian arts and basket store operated by Abe Cohn (1859-1934) at an unknown date; purchased by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) from Cohn's Emporium in 1924 during the Mark Raymond Harrington Nevada Expedition.
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- Place
- Genoa; Douglas County; Nevada; USA
- See related items
- Washoe (Washo)
- Containers and Vessels
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, California & Great Basin
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 13/3913
- Barcode
- 133913.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Indigenous Term
- sing am
- Object Name
- Basket bowl
- Media/Materials
- Willow, bracken fern root
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Dimensions
- 31 x 53.5 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_143582