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Sweetgrass basket

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

Date2009

MediumFiber, wood, Black ash splints, sweetgrass

Dimensions4 1/2” H x 10 3/4” Diameter

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Edward M Werner ‘71

Object numberNA2009.16.WER

DescriptionBasket with wide and narrow splints and extensive braided sweet grass. Looped splint and braided sweet grass handle.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

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