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