Fancy basket with covenant chain design

Artist Denise Jock (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne, Turtle Clan)

DateLate 20th C. / Early 21st C.

MediumFiber, pigment, wood, Black ash splint, sweetgrass

Dimensions6 1/2” H x 7 1/4” Diam.

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Whitney Scott ‘08 in Memory of Verna Scott

Object numberNA2002.08.SCO

DescriptionSplint basket with many porcupine twists on the body and lid of basket, as well as a row of twists forming a base. Blue-green covenant chain design around shoulder of basket and outer top of lid. Sweet grass at bottom center of basket, at center of lid, and along outer edge of rim, where it is bound with diagonal splints. Triple loop handle in natural and blue-green dyed splints.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Makers and Materials of the Americas

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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