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Coiled basket water jug pitched in pine resin with horsehair handles and cotton tumpline / Native American; Navajo (Diné)

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Water jar shaped basket with pointed bottom, completely covered with pitch, and with braided horsehair lugs with part of cotton tumpline.

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Title(s): 
Coiled basket water jug pitched in pine resin with horsehair handles and cotton tumpline
Culture: 
Native American; Navajo (Diné)
Date: 
circa 1900
Period: 
Historic
Place: 
Arizona
Materials/Techniques: 
grass, pine resin, horsehair, cotton
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Ethel Traphagen Leigh
Accession No: 
71.272
Previous Number(s): 
TL1964; 7136.272
Department: 
Not On View

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