Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Sep 2007
name: label: Collector
content: Lillian T. Samuelson
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Lillian T. Samuelson
notes: label: Notes
content: Chitimacha type basket with lid, square base. Dyed brown and red and natural cane decoration, red is faded. Design on the body is an undulating line, and on the lid a series of lines and squares.
label: Notes
content: Donor Notes: "The design of the double-woven covered basket shows traditional designs on both the top and bottom parts of the basket. The basket is 6 " tall and is about 3 inches across each side at the top, and about 4 inches across each side at the bottom" "made in 1970 by Mrs. Faye Stouff. She was not Chitimacha, but moved to the reservation as a bride of 15 when she and Mr [Emile Anatole] Stouff (a Chitimacha) were married in 1926." She learned to make baskets from her mother-in-law, and in 1969, said she was the last of the Chitimacha basket makers, and the last native medicine practitioner on the reservation. This basket made in 1969-1970 at Samuelson's request with river cane and various dyes, including black walnut from Virginia.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Charenton, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: American
label: Culture
content: Chitimacha
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2037467
label: USNM Number
content: E434595-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 11 cm
label: Width
content: 11 cm
label: Height
content: 16 cm