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Object Number
995-29-10/73183A
Display Title
Plaited "strawberry" basket (A) with lid (B)
Descriptions
Object Description
Plaited "strawberry" basket (A) with lid (B). Algonquian style (Penobscot? Micmac?); perhaps Mohawk-made. Globular basket with domed lid, plaited (1/1 interlacing) of sweet grass and red-dyed wood splints, and covered with "porcupine twist" decoration. (Splints have faded on outside to brown, but red remains on inside.) Shape resembles that of strawberry; wrapped loop handle on lid fashioned from splint, surrounded by splints shaped to represent leaves (probably originally dyed green). Rim of basket reinforced with additional splints and that of lid with sweet grass, attached by coiling. Almost identical to 995-29-10/73182.
Dimensions: max. height including lid = 9 cm, height to rim = 7.5 cm, max. diameter (lid) = 13.5 cm, max. diameter of basket = 13 cm.
Inventory Description
Basket, exterior curled resembling strawberry, faded red dye
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1900-1995
Culture
- Passamaquoddy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Additional Geographic Terms
Woodlands, northeast
Materials
Bark, Sweetgrass, Dye, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 7 x 13 x 13 cm (2 3/4 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73183A
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(?)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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