Basket bowl
date: label: Date created
content: 1929-1931
name: label: Culture/People
content: Pomo
label: Artist/Maker
content: Begun by Mary Knight Benson (Mrs. William Benson), Pomo, 1878-1930 and finished by William Benson, Pomo, 1862-1937
label: Commissioner
content: Grace Nicholson, Non-Indian, 1877-1948
label: Previous owner
content: Grace Nicholson, Non-Indian, 1877-1948
label: Previous owner
content: Thyra Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1903-1972
label: Seller
content: Thyra Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1903-1972
notes: label: Collection History
content: Commissioned from the artist Mary Knight Benson by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948, a California basket collector and dealer); inherited by Grace Nicholson's assistant Thyra Maxwell (1903-1972); purchased by MAI from Thyra Maxwell in 1968.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Central California; California; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Pomo
label: See related items
content: Containers and Vessels
label: On View
content: NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, California & Great Basin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 24/2118
label: Barcode
content: 242118.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Containers and Vessels
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Basket bowl
label: Media/Materials
content: Sedge, willow, bulrush
label: Techniques
content: Coiled
label: Dimensions
content: 58.5 x 34 x 10 cm