Wedding Basket
Pomo (Northern California, United States)
c. 1895
- Medium
- Plant fibers, feathers, and glass and clamshell beads
- Classification
- Basketry
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 63.5 × 63.5 cm (17 × 25 × 25 in.)
- Culture
- California
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim Jr. Fund; African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Given to a bride at her betrothal, twined dowry baskets are some of the largest and most complex objects woven by Pomo artists. The basic pattern of this basket includes different sizes of serrated design motifs that are animated with topknot feathers from the California quail, imported glass beads, and indigenous clamshell beads.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
