Basket

Museum number:
2-61674
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3384
Description:
Birchbark; round, straight-sided birch basket with some stitches dyed in shades of green, red; some stitches missing or damaged.
Donor:
Elizabeth McCown Langstroth
Collection place:
Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Verbatim coll. place:
Minnesota; St. Louis; Duluth
Culture or time period:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
Collector:
Grandmother of Libby McCown Langstroth
Collection date:
1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Context of use:
Novelty.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 10.7 centimeters and 12.5 inches
Comment:
Made and sold in area where collector spent summers. Originally cost $0.75 (scratched into underside).
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-61674, described as Birchbark; round, straight-sided birch basket with some stitches dyed in shades of green, red; some stitches missing or damaged.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-61674, described as Birchbark; round, straight-sided birch basket with some stitches dyed in shades of green, red; some stitches missing or damaged.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-61674, described as Birchbark; round, straight-sided birch basket with some stitches dyed in shades of green, red; some stitches missing or damaged.

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