On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.

Basket bowl

Carrie Bethel Mono Lake Paiute

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 746


Carrie Bethel’s monumental basket is one of only five of comparable size and complexity the artist made in her lifetime. She began the work in 1926 at the age of twenty-nine and completed it three years later in time for the Yosemite National Park Indian Field Days competition; it won first prize. The basket’s sculptural form and dynamic pattern, realized with thousands of sedge-root stitches over coils of willow shoots, transcend the technical in the immediacy of their visual impact.

Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American

Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Open Access

As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes.

API

Public domain data for this object can also be accessed using the Met's Open Access API.

Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American
Basket bowl, Carrie Bethel (Mono Lake Paiute, 1898–1974), Willow shoots, sedge root, redbud shoots, and dyed bracken root, Mono Lake Paiute, Native American

This artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left. Scroll left to view more.