Footnotes

• Provenance:
  The attribution to Katie cloud has been made by Marvin Cohodas. In an accompanying document he indicates: "The three rod Washoe degikup pictured below...may be attributed to Katie Cloud of Walker Lake, Nevada, a Paiute reservation.
  
  The basket may be attributed on the base of near identical work in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, which was collected and documented by Grace Nicholson of Pasadena. The two baskets in this collection that Nicholson documented as having been woven by Katie cloud were collected by Nicholson in 1912, which provides a good estimate of the basket pictured below.
  
  The weaving style of Katie Cloud's baskets seems to fit more comfortably within the Washoe than the Paiute sphere. A third basket in the same style, collected at the same time and place, is identified as the work of Mrs. William Tom. Further research might determine whether Katie cloud was the same person as Mrs. William Tom, and whether she might have been a Washoe woman married to a Paiute man."

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Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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