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Object Number
2018.18.40
Display Title
Birchbark wastebasket with etched design
Descriptions
Object Description
Wastebasket with etched birchbark walls tacked to wooden base, two birchbark handles, and sweetgrass-edged rim with double-stitched binding. Etched design of tipi, cooking kettle, two Indians paddling canoe, swimming deer, foliate elements and borders of tipi-shaped wickiups
Inventory Description
Basket, etched birchbark tacked to wooden base, two birchbark handles, sweetgrass-edged rim with double-stitched binding
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1933 or earlier
Culture
- Passamaquoddy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Maine
Additional Geographic Terms
Peter Dana Point
Materials
Birchbark , Wood , Sweetgrass
Dimensions
Overall: 33.7 × 34 × 28.5 cm (13 1/4 × 13 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2018.18.40; Penobscot INDIANS / Old Town Maine / Celestial Eclipse / 1933
Credit Line
Gift of basketry scholars and authors Sarah R. Peabody Turnbaugh '76scl (Anthropology) and William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. '73 (Anthropology), in memory of brother Moses Peabody, 1955-2018
Provenance
Owner
Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
(-11/29/2018)
Owner
William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
(-11/29/2018)
Collector
Dr. Harlan Berkley Peabody Jr.
(1933)
Donor
Donated by
Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
(11/29/2018)
Donor
Donated by
William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
(11/29/2018)
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