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Basket bowl

Lucy Telles Miwok and Southern Miwok
ca. 1912
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 723
Baskets are among the oldest forms of Native art, and one that found particular favor among Euro-American collectors from the 19th century on. Basketmakers, mostly women, used plants common to their regions, dyeing some and leaving others in their natural colorations. Lucy Telles’s artistic vision and technical skill are revealed in the precisely controlled stitch count and design of her rounded, flat-shouldered basket bowl—a popular type of California basket design.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Basket bowl
  • Artist: Lucy Telles (Miwok and Southern Miwok, 1885–1955)
  • Date: ca. 1912
  • Geography: Made in Yosemite National Park, California, United States
  • Culture: Miwok and Southern Miwok, Native American
  • Medium: Sedge root, redbud shoots and dyed bracken root
  • Dimensions: 5 x 9 7/8 in. (12.7x 25.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019
  • Object Number: 2019.456.7
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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