FROM CARD (this text is taken from a 19th or early 20th century exhibit label; for original label see card E11276): "COILED BASKET BOWLS OF THE UTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK). MADE FROM SPLIT WILLOW, COILED OVER BUNCHES OF SMALL TWIGS. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE WORK IS DONE CARELESSLY, THE FILAMENTS PIERCING AND DIVIDING THE STITCHES OF THE PRECEDING COIL; IN OTHERS, THE SEWING IS SO CAREFULLY LAID ON THAT IT PRESENTS A UNIFORM SURFACE AND IN NO CASE DOES ONE STITCH INTERFERE WITH ANOTHER. UTAH. 1,876; 11,276; 11,863 1/2; 11,867 1/2; 14,712-14,739. COLLECTED BY MAJOR J. W. POWELL. FROM CARD: 14704-25. BASKET WORK. NO. 14723 SENT AS A GIFT TO PUBLIC MUSEUM, HARRIMAN, TENN., JUNE 27, 1922. NO. 14714 SENT AS A GIFT TO UNION UNIVERSITY, JACKSON, TENN., JAN. 31, 1923. NO. 14715: GIFT-SACRED HEART SCHOOL 39 ADELPHI STREET BROOKLYN, N.Y. DEC. 24, 1914. #14720 - ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. XXV, FIG. 47. #14719 - ILLUS. FIG. 48. 14720 LOAN TO 1876 CENTENNIAL COMM. 4/20/70. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: MUSH BOWL.-MADE BY COILING A SPLINT AND THIN STRIP OF YUCCA, BAST, OR OSIER, AND WHIPPING THEM WITH SPLIT OSIER. ORNAMENTATION PRODUCED BY WORKING INTO THE FABRIC SPLINTS DYED BLACK. THE WORK IS VERY REGULAR AND THE TEXTURE WATER-TIGHT. DIAMETER, 6 3/4 INCHES; DEPTH, 2 1/4 INCHES. PAIUTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK), SOUTHERN UTAH 1874. 14,720. COLLECTED BY MAJ. J. W. POWELL."
Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 5d, cf. Mason 1885, pl 25, fig. 47)
