Navajo Wedding Basket with Cotton Tuft
Historical artifact -- Anthropological Artifact;Basket
Identifier:
1986.62.3
Description
Navajo wedding basket. Written in the gift deed, "'spirit thread' present. Tuft of 'cotton' embedded in center bottom and extends to outside of basket." The design is a traditional wedding basket design, with a light colored star in the center on a dark background, three rows of solid reddish weave, and 13 dark triangles, four rows deep, pointing towards the rim. There are two rows of the light color at the outside and the rim is finished with a fishtail weave. The donor, Mr. Basil T. Knight was with the school district from 1923-1962 and 1967-1983, he worked with migrant school children (whose parents worked in the beet/tomato industries) from whom he acquired this basket. From the Inscription House of Navajo National Monument area in Arizona.
Content Date:
1900s
