juncus and deer grass

This basket is a modified se-whal-lal, oval in shape and untraditional in design motifs. It was made by a Chemehuevi basket-maket. The Chemeheuvi were driven from their homelands on the Colorado River by the Mojave in the late 1800s. Eventually, most of them drifted back to their homes where a reservation was established for them; a few, however, remianed in the Coachella valley, on Cahuilla reservations, where their basketmakers adopted many aspects of Cahuilla basketry technique.
-from the Native American Art from the Permanent Collection catalog, 1979

Kay Koeninger and Joanne M. Mack, "Native American Art from the Permanent Collection" (Claremont: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1979), 83 (illustrated/bw) fig. 277.

This object has the following keywords:

• Cahuilla
• Dancing
• Human Figures
• Juncus and Grass Baskets

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Ways of Seeing/Exhibiting American Indian Art: The Pomona College Collection Montgomery Gallery , 1/19/1994 - 3/20/1994
• A Symmetrical Aesthetic: Southern California Indian Baskets Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College , 3/19/2001 - 5/13/2001
• In Our Care: Institutional History in Material Form Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College , 12/15/2020 - 5/16/2021

• Overall Dimensions: 2 1/2 x 15 x 13 1/2 in. (6.35 x 38.1 x 34.29 cm)

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Native American Art from the Permanent Collection. Native American Art from the Permanent Collection Galleries of the Claremont Colleges. Claremont, CA, 1979
  Page Number: 83, Figure Number: 277

This object is a member of the following portfolios: