Dublin Core
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
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
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