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date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1983
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: UNDYED STRAWBERRY BASKET WITH LID MADE BY MARY LEAF, AKWASASNE MOHAWK. UNDYED NATURAL COLOR SYMBOLIZES UNRIPE BERRY. WEAVE TECHNIQUE IS OVER ONE, UNDER ONE PLAIT WITH OVERLAY WEFT CURLS. LID HAS ROSETTE OF GREEN DYED ASH AS LEAVES TRIMMED IN UNDYED SWEET GRASS WITH UNDYED ASH SPLINT RING STITCHED ONTO LID WITH BROWN COTTON THREAD. SWEET GRASS TRIM ALSO ON RIM AND BASKET BOTTOM. AQUIRED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1983. SEE CATALOG #E430147 BY SAME ARTIST.
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: E430148-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 9 cm