Small, round mouthed, square bottomed; made of twill plaited split cane. Has orange, yellow, and brown dyed split cane used to make an alternating brown and yellow horizontal band just under rim and brown and orange band around body, woven to look like arrowheads all going in same direction.
Donor:
Mary Rosamond Haas
Collection place:
Charenton, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Verbatim coll. place:
Louisiana; St. Mary; Charenton
Culture or time period:
Chitimacha
Collector:
Mary Rosamond Haas
Collection date:
1930-1939
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 9.3 centimeters and height 6.5 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: Made as a gift for collector following designs in Swanton's illustrations.