Basket tray
- Date created
- circa 1820
- Culture/People
- Barbareño Chumash (Santa Barbara)
- Artist/Maker
- attributed to Juana Basilia Sitmelelene, Barbareño Chumash (Santa Barbara), 1780-1838
- Previous owner
- Catarina Ortega (Maria Catarina Manuela Ortega/Mrs. Jose Gertrudis Carmelo Carrillo y Castro), Non-Indian, 1810-1851
- Seller
- Marcella Klein Wason (Marcella K. Wasson/Marcella Klein Wasson/Mrs. John W. Wason), Non-Indian, 1906-1985
- Previous owner
- Frederick S. Wallace, Non-Indian, 1889-1973
- Collection History
- Made for Catarina Ortega (Maria Catarina Manuela Ortega, 1810-1851, a granddaughter of Captain Jose Francisco Ortega, who was Commandant of several presidios in southern California from 1773 to 1795); formerly in the collection of Frederick S. Wallace (1889-1973, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collector of baskets and other Indian items); purchased by MAI in 1974 from Marcella Klein Wason (1906-1985, executrix of Frederick Wallace's estate).
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- Place
- Southern California; California; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Barbareño Chumash (Santa Barbara)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/1
- Barcode
- 250001.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket tray
- Media/Materials
- Juncus rush, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Dimensions
- 57.5 x 46.8 x 7.8 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_265795