Dublin Core
Title
basket
Object
basket
Native Name
sompochee
Nomenclature Category
2: FURNISHINGS
Nomenclature Classification Term
HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:
Culture
Seminole
Brief Description
Multicolored pedestal shaped round basket.
Description
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.
Use
created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative
decorative
Dimension 1
5.75” W
Dimension 2
5.75” D
Dimension 3
3.5” H
Object Date
1951 1955 own/col
Material
fiber(sweetgrass) fiber( palmetto bark), fiber (cotton or cotton-blend)
Construction
coiled sewn
Maker Culture
Seminole
Condition
EXCEL
Source
Davis, Hilda J. -donation
Collector
Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field
field
Accession Number
1984-06-0007
Type
object
State
FL
Country
USA
Continent
NA
Cataloging History
2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins
Curatorial/Cataloger Comments
2009 RECAT
Cataloging: Consulted References
2009 RECAT: Mowat. 1992. p 9 (see 1984-06-0001)
Rights Holder
Indiana University/Mathers Museum