Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: FANCY STRAWBERRY BASKET WITH LID MADE BY MINNIE DELARME, AKWASASNE MOHAWK. WEAVE TECHNIQUE IS OVER ONE, UNDER ONE PLAIT WITH OVERLAY WEFT CURLS. VIBRANT RED ANALINE DYE SHOWS MINOR FADING ON LID. LID HAS ROSETTE OF RED DYED ASH SPLINTS WOVEN WITH UNDYED SWEET GRASS WITH RED DYED ASH SPLINT RING STITCHED ONTO LID WITH TAN COTTON THREAD. BASKET HAS SWEET GRASS TRIM AROUND RIM, AND ON BASKET BOTTOM. PURCHASED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1982 FOR $55.00 FROM MOHAWK BASKET MAKER, IRENE RICHMOND.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Regis (Akwesasne) Reserve / Cornwall Island (Kawehno:ke), Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430149-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16 cm