Cleveland Museum of Art

Doctor's Basket, Canoe- shaped

Date

1890

Medium

coiled, with shell and yellow glass beads

Culture

California, Pomo, 19th century

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Oblong baskets like this one, which range in size from miniatures to examples more than four feet long, are sometimes said to have been used by native doctors to store medicines and paraphernalia such as rattles. This one, however, probably was made not for native use but for sale to a turn-of-the-century collector.

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