Trinket Basket

Marion Obomsawin, Abenaki / American, 1885 - 1980
Abenaki
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
Dr. Gordon M. Day

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1900-1950

Wood splints, sweetgrass, plaiting technique

Overall: 5 5/16 × 7 1/16 in. (13.5 × 18 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Alfred Frank Whiting

167.45.24246

Geography

Place Made: St. Francis Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi, Charlotte, 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

Ancient Nativer American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-February 9, 1992.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.

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.

The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, Massachusetts, March 10-May 29, 1994.

Vermont's Ethnic Heritage 1791-1991, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, April 23-August 15, 1991.

Provenance

Found in a cabin at Cedar Beach, Charlotte, Vermont by Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978), about 1967; given to present collection, 1967.

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