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Blueberry basket

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

MediumBlack ash splint and sweet grass

Dimensions4 1/8” H x 5” Diam.

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.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

Lesson Plans

Storytelling Styles That Show What History Books Don't

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