Basket Lid
39-18-21.2
From: North America | Great Lakes (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 39-18-21.2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Ojibwa (uncertain) |
Provenience | North America | Great Lakes (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Birchbark | Sweetgrass | Moose Hair |
Technique | Basketry |
Description | Small, low, octagonal. Made of birch bark. Base and top of cover of separate pieces sewed to sides with edging of white sweet-grass (?). Thread [and needle(?)] sewing. Sides of base and cover, and especially top of cover, decorated with floral and other simple designs in dyed moose-hair (?) embroidery. |
Height | 4 cm |
Outside Diameter | 8.5 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Robert Frazier, 1939 |
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