basket

basket

basket

sompochee

2: FURNISHINGS

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:

Seminole

Multicolored round shallow basket.

Multicolored round shallow basket. Flat base and straight sides constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The coils are sewn together on the sides of the basket with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines about 3/4” apart up the sides 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 tot he top of each coil (about 1/4” diameter). Each stitch catches a few fibers from the coil above. The bottom two coils of the side are stitched in orange and the top one is stitched in green. The 8 coils that make the flat bottom are stitched in red, each coil simply wrapped diagonally (without any decorative vertical lines). The middle two coils are completely wrapped in red so that the center of the basket is a red spiral. The rim is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes with blunt, rather rough, cut making a clear seam. The stitching of the diagonal lines is fairly even. Visible dirt on the interior.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

4” W

4” D

1” H

1951 1955 own/col

fiber(sweetgrass) fiber (cotton or cotton blend)

coiled sewn

Seminole

GOOD discol dirt

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0008

object

FL

USA

NA

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT

2009 RECAT: Mowat. 1992 pg 9 (See 1984-06-0001)

Indiana University/Mathers Museum