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Strawberry basket

Artist Annabelle Oakes (Iawenhakie) (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne, Wolf Clan)

Datec. 2000

MediumFiber, pigment, wood, Black ash splint

Dimensions4” H x 5” Diam.

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object numberNA2010.076.LMA

DescriptionLarge basket in the shape of a strawberry made from red-dyed ash splints with many twists around the body and lid. Sweet grass on the bottom, around the rim of the lid, and in double circles on the top of the lid. Six splints dyed green form twelve leaves at the top of the lid, and a lop of thin green splint forms a loop handle.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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