Basket with cover
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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Yokuts
- Previous owner
- Helen Breese Walcott Younger, Non-Indian, 1894-1965
- Possible collector
- Charles Doolittle Walcott, Non-Indian, 1850-1927
- Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (Mrs. Charles Doolittle Walcott), Non-Indian, 1860-1940
- Previous owner
- Charles Doolittle Walcott, Non-Indian, 1850-1927
- Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (Mrs. Charles Doolittle Walcott), Non-Indian, 1860-1940
- Cole J. Younger (Cole Joseph Younger), Non-Indian, 1894-1987
- Helen Pressprich Younger (Helen Elizabeth Pressprich/Mrs. Cole J. Younger), Non-Indian, 1905-1992
- Donor
- Cole J. Younger (Cole Joseph Younger), Non-Indian, 1894-1987
- Collection History
- Probably collected by Charles D. Walcott (1850-1927, paleontologist and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927) or his wife Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940, a painter, naturalist and member of the federal Board of Indian Commissioners from 1927 to 1932), both of whom travelled extensively; inherited by Charles D. Walcott's daughter, Helena Breese Walcott Younger (1894-1965); subsequently inherited by Helen Walcott's husband Cole J. Younger (1894-1987); donated to MAI by Cole Younger and his second wife, Helen Pressprich Younger (1905-1992), in 1973.
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- Place
- Central California; California; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Yokuts
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 24/7736
- Barcode
- 247736.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Grass, sedge root, bracken fern root, redbud
- Techniques
- Coiled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_263534