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Object Number 04-37-10/63618
Display Title Splint basket
Descriptions
Object Description White Oak splint basket with swabbed on pigment.
Object Description Mashpee artist Phoebe Pocknett (1888-1968) wove this oak splint (or thin strip of wood) basket. The basket features wrapped handles and commercial blue dye. Baskets like this one were made for use in daily life. This particular basket shows little wear, suggesting that it may have been created by the artist for sale.
Inventory Description Basket, woven bark strips, square bottom and top, looped handles at either end.
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Date late 19th-early 20th Century
Artist Phoebe Pocknett
Culture
  • Mashpee
  • Algonquian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Barnstable County
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 35 x 1 cm (6 5/16 x 13 3/4 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63618
Credit Line Gift of Dr. L. C. Jones, 1904
Provenance
Collector Dr. Lombard C. Jones (1904)
Donor Dr. Lombard C. Jones (1904)

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