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fancy basket

Artist Shirley Thompson (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne)

MediumFiber, wood, Black ash and sweetgrass

Dimensions5 3/4” H x 6 1/2” Diam.

Signed“ST” on bottom

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Edward M Werner ‘71

Object numberNA2010.084.WER

DescriptionFancy basket with sweetgrass at the base, top, around rim of lid, and braided around the rim of the basket. Braided sweetgrass also forms a friendship chain near the bottom of the basket and hourglass-like pattern around the center of the basket and on the lid. Two rows of porcupine twists form a foot for the basket and also decorate the lid. Set of three loops and a coil as a handle.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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