"Fancy" Basket with Lid
Passamaquoddy
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1960
Ash splints (warp and weft), sweetgrass braids (weft), blue dye, plaiting technique
Overall: 2 5/8 × 7 1/2 in. (6.6 × 19 cm)
Overall: 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
160.35.14542
Geography
Place Made: Princeton, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991..
The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.
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
Shop on the shore of Big Lake, Pinceton, Maine; sold to Professor Alfred F. Whiting for the Dartmouth College Museum, July 1960.
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