Basket with lid

Museum number:
2-68532a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4222
Object count:
2
Description:
(a) Circular, twill plaited sweetgrass basket. (b) Lid. Exterior has become faded. Various colors of grass used, also orange dyed bark (?) used as splints for the basket.
Donor:
Mary Rosamond Haas
Collection place:
Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine
Verbatim coll. place:
Maine; Old Town
Culture or time period:
Penobscot
Collector:
Mary Rosamond Haas
Collection date:
1930-1939
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Souvenir basket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(b)— diameter 13 centimeters, (a)— height 3 centimeters, (a)— diameter 12.4 centimeters, and (b)— height 1.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-68532a,b, described as (a) Circular, twill plaited sweetgrass basket. (b) Lid. Exterior has become faded. Various colors of grass used, also orange dyed bark (?) used as splints for the basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-68532a,b, described as (a) Circular, twill plaited sweetgrass basket. (b) Lid. Exterior has become faded. Various colors of grass used, also orange dyed bark (?) used as splints for the basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-68532a,b, described as (a) Circular, twill plaited sweetgrass basket. (b) Lid. Exterior has become faded. Various colors of grass used, also orange dyed bark (?) used as splints for the basket.

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