basket

basket

basket

sompochee

2: FURNISHINGS

HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:

Seminole

Multicolored oval shallow basket.

Multicolored oval shallow basket. Flat base constructed of palmetto bark fiber and open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The sides are constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The longer sides slope gently outwards and the short sides slope gently inward. The coils are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines about 1/2” apart at the base, 3/4” apart at the top, 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 coil above. The bottom three coils are stitched in aqua, the next three in red, and the next three in green, and the top three in orange. The rim is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes with a taper that produces a sloped ending. The stitching of the diagonal lines is even.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

14” W

8.5” D

1.5” 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

1984-06-0006

object

FL

USA

NA

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT

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

Indiana University/Mathers Museum