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fancy basket

Artist Freda White (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne)

Date2010

MediumFiber, pigment, wood, Black ash and sweetgrass

Dimensions6” H x 8” Diam.

Signed“FMW 2010” on bottom in red ink

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Edward M Werner ‘71

Object numberNA2010.091.WER

DescriptionFancy basket of narrow and medium splints with a single row of braided sweetgrass around the rim of the basket and unbraided sweetgrass around the rim of the lid. Extensive sweetgrass on the bottom and center top of lid. Basket is mostly made of natural splints but includes purple dyed splint overwraps, narrow splints, and loop handle on the lid. On both the lid and body there are natural splint curls and purple dyed porcupine twists.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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