Trinket Basket
Makah
Northwest Coast
early 20th century
Split cedar bark (bottom and warp), rush (bottom), bear grass stems (weft), dyes plaiting and three-strand twining (bottom) and wrapped twining (sides and lid) technique
Overall: 2 3/8 × 2 11/16 in. (6 × 6.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans
157.9.13879
Geography
Place Made: Cape Flattery, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Exhibition History
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, !990-October 20, 1991.
Publication History
Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Provenance
Collected by Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.
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