Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service (Sites)
label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service (Sites)
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: DYED RED STRAWBERRY BASKET WITH LID, MADE BY MARY LEAF, AKWASASNE MOHAWK. RED DYE SYMBOLIZES RIPE STRAWBERRY. WEAVE TECHNIQUE IS OVER ONE, UNDER ONE PLAIT WITH OVERLAY WEFT CURLS. LID HAS ROSETTE OF GREEN DYED ASH FOR STRAWBERRY LEAVES TRIMMED IN UNDYED SWEET GRASS WITH GREEN DYED ASH SPLINT RING STITCHED ONTO LID WITH COTTON THREAD. SWEET GRASS TRIM ALSO AROUND RIM AND ON BASKET BOTTOM. DYED SPLINTS AND CURLS ON LID AND SIDES OF BASKET SHOW SIGNS OF FADING. GREEN DYED PETALS SHOW WATER DAMAGE. PURCHASED BY E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1979 FOR $35.00 FROM MOHAWK BASKET MAKER IRENE RICHMOND. SEE CATALOG NO. E430148 BY SAME ARTIST.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 320, p. 200 in Allan, Stuart, and Sylvia S. Kasprycki. 2013. On the trails of the Iroquois Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 22 March to 4 August 2013 ; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 18 October 2013 to 6 January 2014 ; [on the occasion of the Exhibition On the Trails of the Iroquois ... organized by the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn]. Berlin: Nicolai. Described there as Strawberry basket, ash splints, sweetgrass, cotton thread, 9.5 x 12.3 cm. Publication also notes that the representation of a strawberry reflects the special importance attributed to strawberries in Iroquois culture. "The first appearance of strawberries in spring is celebrated by a festival and is an occasion for giving thanks to the Creator. Both the production of effigy baskets and the technique of twisting the horizontal splints to form loops are innovations of the twentieth century."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
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: E430147-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 9 cm