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Object Number 94-38-10/52510
Display Title Elaborate basketry "what-not" (hanging shelf)
Descriptions
Object Description Elaborate basketry "what-not" (hanging shelf), constructed from stained wood fiber with many basketry ornaments. Made by Agathe Athanasa of Riviere de Loup, Quebec, Canada. Exhibited at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Inventory Description Basket, flat panel backing, 3-dimensional, miniature fiber baskets, flowers atta
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Date 1867-1894
Artist Agathe Athanasa
Culture
  • Maliseet?
  • Innu?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Quebec
Dimensions 103 cm (L), 43 cm (W), 12 cm (H)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Pere Charles Arnaud (1892)
Intermediary Archibald R. Tisdale

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