basket

basket

basket

sompochee

2: FURNISHINGS

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:

Seminole

Multicolored pedestal shaped round basket.

Multicolored pedestal shaped round basket. Flat base is constructed of palmetto bark fiber and open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The sides slope in from the bottom and then flared together. The sides slope in from the bottom and then flared out to a wider top, ending with straight sides at the rim. The sides are constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The coils are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines, about 1/2” apart where the basket has the smallest diameter to 1” at the rim. Vertical lines have short, upright pointing diagonal lines (about 5/8” long) that come off to the left of the vertical lines from the bottom to the top of each coil (about 1/4” in diameter). Each stitch catches a few fibers of the next coil above. The bottom three coils are stitched in green, the next three dark blue, the next three in light green, and the next three in orange, and the top three in black. The rim is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes with a gentle taper that produces a nearly seamless ending. The stitching of the diagonal lines is fairly even.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

5.75” W

5.75” D

3.5” H

1951 1955 own/col

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

coiled sewn

Seminole

EXCEL

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0007

object

FL

USA

NA

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT

2009 RECAT: Mowat. 1992. p 9 (see 1984-06-0001)

Indiana University/Mathers Museum