Child's burden basket with burden strap
- Date created
- circa 1880
- Culture/People
- Chiricahua Apache
- Collector
- Captain John Gregory Bourke, Non-Indian, 1846-1896
- Previous owner
- Captain John Gregory Bourke, Non-Indian, 1846-1896
- Mary Horbach Bourke (Mary F. Bourke/Mrs. John G. Bourke), Non-Indian, 1861-1927
- Anna Bourke Richardson (Mrs. Alexander H. Richardson/Mrs. A. H. Richardson), Non-Indian, 1887-1976
- Pauline Bourke Maish (Pauline B. Bourke Todd/Mrs. Alexander W. Maish), Non-Indian, 1891-1981
- Donor
- Anna Bourke Richardson (Mrs. Alexander H. Richardson/Mrs. A. H. Richardson), Non-Indian, 1887-1976
- Pauline Bourke Maish (Pauline B. Bourke Todd/Mrs. Alexander W. Maish), Non-Indian, 1891-1981
- Collection History
- Collected between 1869 and 1887 by Captain John Gregory Bourke (1846-1896) during military tours in the Southwest; lent to the US National Museum (later the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) by Captain Bourke in 1891 and part of the collection there until the death of his widow, Mary Horbach Bourke (1861-1927); inherited by the Bourkes' daughters, Anna Bourke Richardson (1887-1976) and Pauline Bourke Maish (1891-1981); donated to MAI by Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Maish in 1928.
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- Place
- Arizona; USA
- See related items
- Chiricahua Apache
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 16/1408
- Barcode
- 161408.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Child's burden basket with burden strap
- Media/Materials
- Sumac, deerhide/deerskin, paint, cotton cloth
- Techniques
- Twined, painted, fringed
- Record ID
- NMAI_173090