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Title
Water
Basket
Region
Great
Basin
;
Paiute
;
Utah
Date
1800
Date Notes
ca.1800
Materials
woven
grasses
;
horse
hair
;
pitch
Description
"The
skill
to
make
finely
woven
,
watertight
, and
sometimes
pitch-covered
twined
or
coiled
water
bottles
was
knowledge
crucial
to
life
in the
arid
Great
Basin
.
Regionally
and
tribally
distinct
, these
baskets
were
sought
after
items
of
trade
among
neighbors
within
and
beyond
the
region
.
Southern
Paiutes
traded
their
pitch
water
bottles
to the
Hopi
people
of the
Southwest
, as
did
the
Southern
Ute
to the
Jicarilla
Apache
. The
Owens
Valley
Paiute
traded
their
basketry
bottles
to the
Yokuts
of
south-central
California
, as
did
the
Northern
Paiute
to the
Achomawi
and
other
groups
in
Northern
California
.
Sturdier
coiled
water
carriers
made
by the
Northern
and
Southern
Ute
were
favored
by the
Wind
River
and
Snake
River
Shoshone
"
(The
National
Museum
of the
American
Indian)
.
Dimensions
13 x 17 x 13 inches
Identifier
NAI.271.2010
Source
The
Jim
and
Vanita
Oelschlager
Native
American
Ethnographic
Collection
Exhibit Information
'Connecting Objects to their People: From the Arctic to Arizona'; May 7 - October 14, 2012 at The Center for the History of Psychology.
Credits
Research by Lynn Metzger and Rachel Fox; photography by Francisca Ugalde. For permission to use contact franita1@gmail.com
Collection Descriptor
The
Jim
and
Vanita
Oelschlager
Native
American
Ethnographic
Collection
UA College
Buchtel
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences
UA Department
Department
of
Anthropology
and
Classical
Studies
and The
Mary
Schiller
Myers
School
of
Art
Contact Information
Department of Anthropology office: 330.972.7875
Description
Title
Water
Basket
Collection Descriptor
The
Jim
and
Vanita
Oelschlager
Native
American
Ethnographic
Collection
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