Basket with lid

Museum number:
2-61992a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210261992a@2cb
Alternate number:
1H (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3437
Description:
(a) Round basket, with (b) unattached lid. Made of sweetgrass on brown ash splint warp; wickerweave. Written in ink on underside of basket "Made by Leona" and "Passamaquoddy" (date illegible).
Donor:
Susan MacCulloch Stevens and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Passamaquoddy Indian Township Reservation, Washington County, Maine
Verbatim coll. place:
Maine; Indian Township Reservation
Culture or time period:
Passamaquoddy
Maker or artist:
Leona Lacoote [Passamaquoddy]
Collector:
Susan MacCulloch Stevens
Collection date:
September 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Container for small trinkets.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(b)— diameter 8.2 centimeters, (b)— height 1.7 centimeters, (a)— height 5.2 centimeters, and (a)— diameter 7.3 centimeters
Comment:
References: "The Explorer" vol 17, no. 3, Fall 1975, pp 4-12, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Container for small trinkets.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61992a,b, described as (a) Round basket, with (b) unattached lid. Made of sweetgrass on brown ash splint warp; wickerweave. Written in ink on underside of basket "Made by Leona" and "Passamaquoddy" (date illegible).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61992a,b, described as (a) Round basket, with (b) unattached lid. Made of sweetgrass on brown ash splint warp; wickerweave. Written in ink on underside of basket "Made by Leona" and "Passamaquoddy" (date illegible).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61992a,b, described as (a) Round basket, with (b) unattached lid. Made of sweetgrass on brown ash splint warp; wickerweave. Written in ink on underside of basket "Made by Leona" and "Passamaquoddy" (date illegible).

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