Basket And Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Dec 1988
name: label: Collector
content: Albert Devane
label: Donor Name
content: Karen Devane
notes: label: Notes
content: STRAIGHT SIDED ROUND BASKET WITH HIGH LOOP HANDLE WOVEN INTO BODY. SEPARATE LID. COILED BUNDLE FOUNDATION EXPOSED BY WIDE SPACED STITCHING. SECTIONS OF DARKER FOUNDATION CREATE 2 BANDS AROUND BODY. HOLE IN FOUNDATION BELOW ONE HANDLE, STITCHING LOST ON PART OF HANDLE. A TYPICAL GULLAH (SEA ISLANDS AFRICAN-AMERICAN) BASKET REPORTED COLLECTED AMONG SEMINOLE, ACCORDING TO DONOR, BUT CURATOR W. STURTEVANT WHO KNEW DE VANE & HIS SEMINOLE CONTACTS DENIES THAT THIS IS A POSSIBILITY. GULLAH BASKET SELLERS ALONG HIGHWAY NEAR CHARLESTON, S.C. ON AUTO ROUTE FLA-NE, WERE NEVER TAKEN BY SEMINOLES IN THE 1950S-60S. SURELY COLLECTED IN S.C. BY NON-SEMINOLE & INCORPORATED IN DE VANE'S SEMINOLE COLLECTION BY ERROR.- (W. STURTEVANT, 1985).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Charleston Near / Not Given, Not Given / Brighton Reservation / Glades County, South Carolina / Florida, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gullah
label: Culture
content: Seminole (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 363074
label: USNM Number
content: E423998-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Basket
content: 32 cm
label: Height - Basket
content: 43 cm
label: Diameter - Lid
content: 29 cm
label: Height - Lid
content: 4 cm