Fancy basket

Artist Laura Mitchell (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne)

MediumLeather/hide, pigment, wood

Dimensions12 3/4” H (w/loops) x 9” Diam. (w/loops)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Mortimer C. Howe Fund

Object numberNA2000.87.HOW

DescriptionFancy basket with natural as well as dyed red and blue splints along with leather cord woven through the splint loops on the sides of the basket. Red and blue splints also appear on the lid in a covenant chain design. Top of lid is a crown of red porcupine twists.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Makers and Materials of the Americas

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