Basket with lid

Museum number:
2-61995a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1K (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3437
Description:
(a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.
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:
November 1969
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Container for buttons, jewelry, miscellaneous small objects.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— diameter 10.5 centimeters, (b)— diameter 11.5 centimeters, (a)— height 6.6 centimeters, and (b)— height 4 centimeters
Comment:
References: "The Explorer" vol 17, no. 3, Fall 1975, pp 4-12, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Container for buttons, jewelry, miscellaneous small objects.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #58: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (April 7, 1980–June 30, 1980) and S2008-2009 #9a: SFO Museum (February 11, 2009–January 11, 2010)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Hearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-61995a,b, described as (a) Round basket with (b) unattached lid. Made of brown ash, natural and red wickerweave, with sweetgrass braids for part of weft. Lid crowned by 7 ash loops.

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