Basket

Museum number:
2-61675
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3384
Description:
Birchbark, oval wastebasket (?) with hoop top and bottom; 3 areas of stitched designs in diamond-like pattern; some green and red-dyed stitches. Original price ($2.15???) scratched on underside but mostly obliterated.
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. Made and sold in area where collector spent summers. Wastebasket (?)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 30.5 centimeters and height 19 centimeters
Comment:
Made and sold in area where collector spent summers. Original price ($2.15???) scratched on underside, but mostly obliterated.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-61675, described as Birchbark, oval wastebasket (?) with hoop top and bottom; 3 areas of stitched designs in diamond-like pattern; some green and red-dyed stitches. Original price ($2.15???) scratched on underside but mostly obliterated.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-61675, described as Birchbark, oval wastebasket (?) with hoop top and bottom; 3 areas of stitched designs in diamond-like pattern; some green and red-dyed stitches. Original price ($2.15???) scratched on underside but mostly obliterated.

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