Unfinished Basket
Walatowa (Jemez Pueblo), Filipe Yepa
Arts of the Americas
CULTURE
Walatowa (Jemez Pueblo)
ARTIST
Filipe Yepa, Jemez
MEDIUM
Plant fibers, dyes
DATES
ca. 1907
DIMENSIONS
1 1/2 x 5 in. (3.8 x 12.7 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
07.467.8229
CREDIT LINE
Museum Expedition 1907, Museum Collection Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Basket woven in coil method by Jemez weaver Filipe Yepa. Although often attributed in style to Navajo or Apache Yepa was one of five or six men making baskets in this style. The red dye was obtained from the Armenian trader in the town. In some houses baskets not in use were suspended from the rafters, bottom side up, in neat rows. Today men in the Jemez Gachupin family still make coiled baskets, Alcario Gachupin purportedly learning from Yepa.
Women used such baskets in a ceremonial dance where they held the basket, "life basket", holding all they will consume. The design is the steps of the cycle of life representing both worlds, black and red,-the here on earth and the spirit world.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Walatowa (Jemez Pueblo). Unfinished Basket, ca. 1907. Plant fibers, dyes, 1 1/2 x 5 in. (3.8 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1907, Museum Collection Fund, 07.467.8229. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 07.467.8229.jpg)
IMAGE
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