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Object Number
995-29-10/73174A
Display Title
Coiled bowl-shaped basket (A), with lid (B), representing Seminole woman
Descriptions
Object Description
Coiled bowl-shaped basket with insloping sides. Widow's basket. Sides are sweet grass sewn with pink, black, orange, purple, red, and turquoise cotton thread; base is palmetto fiber. Flat lid is coiled of sweet grass, with red, blue and purple sewing thread. Lid handle represents head of Seminole woman, with embroidered features on palmetto fiber base, black cotton hair, and glass seed beads around neck.
Dimensions: max. height including lid = 12 cm, height of basket = 6 cm, max. diameter = 20.9 cm, rim diameter = 16.5 cm.
Inventory Description
Basket, coiled, thread twining, (with lid with head as handle, B)
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1960-1989
Culture
- Seminole
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Florida
Additional Geographic Terms
Seminole reservation
Dimensions
Overall: 5.5 x 21 x 21 cm (2 3/16 x 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73174A / 6.00
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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