basket

basket

basket

2: FURNISHINGS

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:

Seminole

Multicolored round shallow headed basket

Multicolored round shallow headed basket. Flat bottom constructed of palmetto bark fiber. The sides are constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The sides gently bow out, then constrict, and then flare out at the rim. The handles located on opposite sides just below the narrowest point of the basket, are made of a single sweetgrass coil integrated into the construction. the handles are wrapped with orange thread. The coils are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines about 1” 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 to the top of each coil (about 1/4” in diameter). Each stitch catches a few fibers from the next coil above. The bottom three coils are stitched in turquoise, the next two are in pink, the next three in purple, the next two in orange, the next three in green, and the top three in pink. The rim is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes with a gentle taper, cut about 1/4” from the last coiled thread. Thus, the cut edges poke out a bit from the edge of the rim. The stitching of the diagonal lines is even.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

6” W

4 1/2” D

2” H

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

coiled sewn

Seminole

excellent

1973-18-0001

1601cb/124

object

FL

USA

NA

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT: Downs p. 198-99 (see 1984-06-0001).

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

Indiana University/Mathers Museum