Basketry Tray
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Apr 1933
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Alice P. Barney
label: Donor Name
content: Daughters of Alice Pike Barney
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "birch bark and sweetgrass. 3 1/4" flat base/bottom of birch bark around which rises coiled sweetgrass sewn with dark thread; a design of open triangular areas is created by the arrangement of one of the coils." From second card: "Straw [sic] coil with birchbark base."
label: Notes
content: Appears formerly to have had some quill? decoration in bark base but that is now (as of 1970's at least) missing.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Great Lakes, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 124063
label: USNM Number
content: E366221-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket