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Splint and sweet grass basket

Artist Christina Jock (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne)

DateLate 20th / Early 21st C.

MediumFiber, wood, Balck ash splint, sweetgrass

Dimensions5 1/4” H (w/loop) x 8 3/4” Diam.

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Mortimer C. Howe Fund

Object numberNA2000.93.HOW

DescriptionBlack ash splint basket with woven sea grass and sweet grass. Much of the basket is covered with braided sweet grass, but one band of unbraided sweetgrass surrounds the multiple-loop splint handle. Rim of lid is bound with splint rim wraps in X and V-shapes.

ClassificationsBasketry

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Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

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