Snake Charmer's Lidded Basket with Snakes and airplane
Artist
Gustave Baumann
(American, born Germany, 1881 - 1971)
Datemid 20th Century
MediumPainted and carved wood, beads, metal disks, woven basket, string, wood airplane with leather handle
Dimensionsbasket a: 3 1/4 x 4 in. (8.3 x 10.2 cm)
lid b: 3 3/4 x 1/2 in. (9.5 x 1.3 cm)
snakes approx. each c: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
lid b: 3 3/4 x 1/2 in. (9.5 x 1.3 cm)
snakes approx. each c: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
ClassificationsTheatrical Props
Credit LineGift of Jane Baumann, 1978
Object number1994.62.53a-c
DescriptionLidded woven basket with decorative birds and lines in red. Basket contains two snakes with artist made heads, bodies are made of graduated orange plastic beads or silver metallic concave disks, snakes are attacked to a wooden airplane by stringsOn View
Not on view
ca. 1975-1976
