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Brown ash and sweetgrass fancy basket with cover
Brown ash and sweetgrass fancy basket with cover
Object Number 2021.3.1
Display Title Brown ash and sweetgrass fancy basket with cover
Descriptions
Object Description Round, covered fancy basket of sweetgrass, natural and red-dyed ash splints; natural splints in shape of a bow on basket cover
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Date 8/26/2021
Artist Doris Chapman
Culture
  • Passamaquoddy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Maine
Materials Ash , Sweetgrass
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indian Township
Provenance
Donor Donated by Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation Committee (9/11/2021)

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