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Object Number
32-79-10/K156
Display Title
Twined beachgrass pack basket
Descriptions
Object Description
Beach grass bag or basket. Open twined with braided handle.
Object Description
This rare example of a twined beachgrass pack basket (wap'hán) made by Wampanoag weaver Bathsheba Occouch (1793-1853) from Aquinnah in the early nineteenth century. In 1931, Mary Vanderhoop, who was then in possession of the basket, noted that it represented the lost art of beachgrass weaving on Martha’s Vineyard.
Inventory Description
Basket, woven fiber, cylindrical, twisted fiber cordage strap
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1816
Artist
Bathsheba Occouch
(c. 1815-1816)
Culture
- Aquinnah
- Algonquian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Massachusetts
/
Dukes County
/
Gay Head
Materials
Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 27 x 27 x 29.5 cm (10 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1932
Provenance
Collector
Mary Amelia Cleggett Vanderhoop
(?)
Previous owner
Previously owned by
Margaret K. Haskins Tilghman
(?)
Seller
Mary Amelia Cleggett Vanderhoop
(January 20, 1932)
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