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Title

basket

Object

basket

Nomenclature Category

2: FURNISHINGS

Nomenclature Classification Term

PERSONAL GEAR:HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY:

Culture

Seminole

Brief Description

Multicolored rectangular shallow basket.

Description

Multicolored rectangular shallow basket. Flat base constructed of two pieces of palmetto bark fiber laced together with tanned white colored hide. Sides are straight on the two short sides and slightly bow on the two long sides. The sides are constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The coils are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines about 3/4” apart up the sides of the basket with short, upright pointing diagonal line (about 3/8” long) that come off to the left of the vertical lines from the bottom tot he 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 in medium blue, the middle five are stitched in gold-yellow, and the last five are stitched in ark red. The rim of the basket is just the top sweetgrass coil. The top coil concludes in an extremely gentle taper (over a long side) creating a seamless ending. The stitching of the diagonal lines is fairly even.

Use

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative

Dimension 1

10.75” W

Dimension 2

7.75” D

Dimension 3

2.25” H

Object Date

1951 1955 own/col

Material

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

Construction

coiled sewn

Maker Culture

Seminole

Condition

Excel

Source

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Collector

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

Accession Number

1984-06-0010

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