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fancy basket

Artist Veronica Cook (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne)

MediumFiber, pigment, wood, Black ash and sweetgrass

Dimensions4 1/4” H x 9 1/4” Diam.

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Edward M Werner ‘71

Object numberNA2010.086.WER

DescriptionShallow fancy basket with medium and small splints and braided sweetgrass in two rows of chains on the body and seven rows of braided sweetgrass around the edge of the lid and additional sweetgrass around the rim and extensively at the center top. Three rows of porcupine twists around the body and on the lid. One aqua dyed splint row on the body and on the lid and as a center lid ornament.

ClassificationsBasketry

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