Cooking Basket

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Culture Skokomish

Title Cooking Basket

Date 1860–1870

Medium Fiber and dye

Dimensions Object: 12 × 15 × 19 1/4 in. (30.5 × 38.1 × 48.9 cm)
Overall: 12 × 15 × 19 1/4 in. (30.5 × 38.1 × 48.9 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 79.54.1

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About this Work

Among the Skokomish peoples baskets range from the ceremonial to the everyday. This basket for example, was utilized in cooking. Historically, baskets were greatly valued and sometimes passed from one generation to the next, from mother to daughter.

The center vertical motif of concentric rectangles is a common motif in Skokomish basketry.

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"Cooking Basket | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.54.1