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Miniature sifter basket
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Miniature sifter basket

Artist Fern Dawahoya (Hopi)
MediumFiber, metal, pigment, Dyed yucca
Dimensions2 7/8” Diam x 1 1/4” H
Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by William Cawthern ‘11
Object numberNA2011.06.LMA
DescriptionMaroon and gold miniature sifter (tutsaya) basket with metal ring inside rim.
ClassificationsBasketry
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Side view
Unknown, Hopi
20th C
Top view
Unknown, Diné (Navajo)
Late 20th C / Early 21st C
Interior view
Unknown, Hopi
Mid-20th C.
Overall view
Unknown, Tohono O’odham (Papago)
Early 20th C (c. 1930s)
Top view
Unknown, Yup’ik?
Late 20th C
Side view
Unknown, Coushatta
20th C
Top, three-quarter, proper left view
G. Lopez?
20th C
Front view
Rita Sam
Late 20th C.
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