Basket with lid

Museum number:
2-61996a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210261996a@2cb
Alternate number:
1L (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3437
Description:
(a) Basket, round with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft.
Donor:
Susan MacCulloch Stevens and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Pleasant Point Reservation, Washington County, Maine
Verbatim coll. place:
Maine; Pleasant Point Reservation
Culture or time period:
Passamaquoddy
Collector:
Susan MacCulloch Stevens
Collection date:
October 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Container for sewing or handkerchiefs.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(b)— height 2.7 centimeters, (b)— diameter 26 centimeters, (a)— height 4.2 centimeters, and (a)— diameter 24.5 centimeters
Comment:
Container for sewing or handkerchiefs.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61996a,b, described as (a) Basket, round with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61996a,b, described as (a) Basket, round with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61996a,b, described as (a) Basket, round with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft.

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