Basket
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: TWO COLOR (RED, NATURAL) DYED CANE BASKET MADE BY CLAUDE MEDFORD, JR., CHOCTAW, 132 1/2 BEHAN STREET, NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457. TWO OPPOSING WALLS OF BASKET CONSTRUCTED OF UNDYED CANE IN OVER FOUR, UNDER FOUR PLAIN PLAIT WEAVE. TWO OTHER OPPOSING WALLS OF BASKET CONSTRUCTED OF RED DYED CANE WARPS AND UNDYED CANE WEFTS IN OVER FOUR, UNDER FOUR PLAIN PLAIT WEAVE. BOTTOM OF BASKET BOWED, OF RED DYED WARPS AND UNDYED WEFTS IN OVER FOUR, UNDER FOUR TWILL PLAIT WITH DESIGN DESCRIBED AS EYE OF EAGLE ON OBJECT COLLECTION TAG WOVEN INTO CENTER. RIM OF BASKET WRAPPED IN ALTERNATING RED AND UNDYED CANE SPLINTS. RED DYED SPLINTS ON RIM AND INSIDE OF BASKET SHOW SIGNIFICANT FADING. COLLECTED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH IN 1983 AND DONATED TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) FOR NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT. CATALOG #S E430157-E430167 BY SAME ARTIST.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430164-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 10 cm