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date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: FANCY BASKET WITH LID MADE BY IRENE RICHMOND, TRADITIONAL NAME: KASANAHAWEH, SNIPE CLAN, AND HER SISTER, SARA RANSOM(E?), TRADITIONAL NAME: KANONWARONKAS, AKWASASNE, MOHAWK. WEAVE IS OVER ONE, UNDER ONE PLAIT OF UNDYED ASH WOOD SPLINTS WITH BRAIDED SWEET GRASS WOVEN IN. BASKET LID HAS SWEET GRASS TRIM AT RIM AND IN CENTER WITH ASH SPLINT RIBBON AND RING IN CENTER. ACCOMPANYING LABEL DESCRIBES SLIDES SHOWING THE WEAVING OF THIS BASKET AND WHOLE SWEET GRASS PLANTS INSIDE WHICH ARE BOTH MISSING. PURCHASED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1983 FOR $55.00 FROM MAKERS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bombay, Franklin County / St. Regis (Akwesasne) Reservation, New York, United States, 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: E430150-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket