basket

basket

basket

sompochee

2: FURNISHINGS

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY

Seminole

Multicolored round shallow handled basket.

Multicolored round shallow handled basket. Flat base constructe dof palmetto bark fiber. Gently sloping sides are constructed of open coiled sweetgrass and stitched together. Two handles, locate don opposite sides at the rim, are made of a single sweetgrass coil integrated into the construction. The handles are wrapped with dark blue thread, which is the same color thread as the adjoining coil. The coil are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines,a bout 1/2” apart at the bottom and 1” at the top up the side of the basket with short, upright-pointing diagonal lines (about 3/8” long) that come off to the left of the vertical lines from the bottom to the top of each coil ( about 1/4” diameter). Each stitch catches a f w fibers of the next coil above. The bottom four coils are stitched in red, the next four in yellow, and the last three in dark brown. the rim is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes in a gentle taper that produces a seamless ending. The stitching of the diagonal lines is fairly even. Yellow thread is somewhat faded and stained.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

L6"

W4.5"

H1"

1951 1955 own/col

fiber(sweetgrass), fiber (palmetto bark), fiber (cotton or cotton-blend)

coiled sewn

Seminole

V GOOD faded stain

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0004

object

FL

USA

NA

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT: Mowat 1992 p. 9 (see 1904-06-0001)

Indiana University/Mathers Museum