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Ear of Corn basket

Artist Barbara A. Gray (Kanatiiosh) (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk, Akwesasne, Wolf Clan)

Date2010

MediumFiber, wood, Back ash splint, cornhusk

Dimensions8 1/2” L x 2 3/4” Diam.

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Brian P. Gerber ‘66

Object numberNA2010.081.GER

DescriptionUndyed splint basket shaped like an ear of white corn with 176 twists (16 rows of 11 twists) representing the corn kernels. It has a separable plain splint lid with a cornhusk loop and attached cornhusks.

ClassificationsBasketry

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Imagining Indigeneity in a Global Future

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