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Blueberry basket

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

ClassificationsBasketry

Dimensions4 1/8” H x 5” Diam.

Materials/TechniqueBlack ash splint and sweet grass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object numberNA2010.102.LMA

DescriptionBlueberry basket made from blue-dyed black ash splints with sweet grass at the center of the lid, on the rim of the lid, and at the base of the basket. Both basket and lid are covered with splint twists.

Place of origin / madeUSA, North America

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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