basket

basket

basket

sompochee

2: FURNISHINGS

PERSONAL HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:GEAR:

Seminole

Multicolored oval shallow basket.

Multicolored oval shallow basket. Flat base constructed of palmetto bark fiber and open coiled sweetgrass. Sides slope out form base and then become straight and are constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The coils are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines about 1” apart up the sides of the basket with short, up right-pointing diagonal lines (about 3/8” long) that come off to the right of the vertical lines from the bottom to the top of the coils (about 1/4” in diameter). Each stitch catches a few fibers of the next coil above. The bottom four coils are stitched with gold-yellow, the next four with medium blue, and the last two with dark pink. The rim is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes in an extremely gentle taper (over approximately 5”) creating a seamless ending. The stitching of the diagonal lines is fairly even, but not as even as some of the other baskets.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

8.5” W

6.5” D

1” 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

1984-06-0009

object

FL

USA

NA

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT

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

Indiana University/Mathers Museum