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Title

basket

Object

basket

Native Name

sompochee

Nomenclature Category

2: FURNISHINGS

Nomenclature Classification Term

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY

Culture

Seminole

Brief Description

Tan oval shallow basket

Description

Tan oval shallow basket. Constructed of open coiled sweetgrass sewn together with 1/4” wide palmetto stem fiber. Flat base and almost straight sides. Sewing is diagonal and goes from the bottom right to the top left. The fiber is stitched through a few strands of the lower coil and is wrapped around the upper coil. The lacing creates vertical lines on the sides and base of the basket approximately 1/2” apart. The rim is just the top coil. The top coil concludes with a gentle taper over several inches that produces an almost seamless ending.

Use

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

Dimension 1

8” W

Dimension 2

6.5” D

Dimension 3

1.5” H

Object Date

1951 1955 own/col

Material

fiber(sweetgrass), (fiber palmetto stem)

Construction

coiled sewn

Maker Culture

Seminole

Condition

EXCEL

Source

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Collector

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

Accession Number

1984-06-0005

Type

object

State

FL

Country

USA

Continent

NA

Cataloging History

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

Curatorial/Cataloger Comments

2009 RECAT:

Cataloging: Consulted References

2009 RECAT: Mowat 1992 p.9 (See 1984-06-0001)
Downs. 1997 p. 198-99 (See 1984-06-0001)

Rights Holder

Indiana University/Mathers Museum