Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1982 Or 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: FANCY BASKET WITH LID MADE BY CECILIA SUNDAY, AKWASASNE MOHAWK. WEAVING TECHNIQUE IS OVER ONE, UNDER ONE PLAIT OF UNDYED ASH WOOD WITH CURLS MADE OF INNER BARK LAYER WITH BRAIDED SWEET GRASS CORDS WOVEN IN. DONOR DESCRIBED PATTERN OF CURLS AS "LADY SLIPPER." BASKET LID HAS SWEET GRASS TRIM AT RIM AND IN CENTER WITH ASH SPLINT RING IN CENTER. BASKET WAS PURCHASED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1982 OR 1983 FOR $50.00 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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430151-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 17 cm