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Birchbark wastebasket with etched design
Birchbark wastebasket with etched design
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
Artist Sabattis Tomah (-1933)
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)
Collector Harlan Berkley Peabody Sr. (1933)
Collector Persis Peabody (1933)
Owner Moses Peabody (-2018)
Donor Donated by Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh (11/29/2018)
Donor Donated by William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. (11/29/2018)

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