Covered Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Oct 1976
name: label: Donor Name
content: Joseph A. Pierite Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Flat bottomed basketry container with cover fitting inside the rim. Made of coils of grass bound at wide intervals with a lighter color. This came without explanation with Tunica ... materials; looks like Abenaki material though it has been made in the South. Type seems Southern: Alabama-Coushatta, or Tunica, or maybe Houma. WCS 4-3-85."
label: Notes
content: Donor's mother Rosa (Rose) Jackson Pierite was a basket maker. She was Choctaw and Biloxi. Her husband, donor's father, Joseph Alcide Pierite Sr. was Tunica and Biloxi. Donor's sisters Rose Pierite White, Norma Pierite Khawaja, and Anna Mae Pierite Juneau also made baskets. So, it is likely this basket was made by donor's mother or one of his sisters. See https://jasonbairdjackson.com/2012/05/23/put-a-bird-on-it/ , http://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/artist-biographies/profiles/225 , https://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/artist-biographies/profiles/121 , https://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/artist-biographies/profiles/126 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tunica (?)
label: Culture
content: Biloxi (?)
label: Culture
content: Choctaw (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 325070
label: USNM Number
content: E418090-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket