Fancy Basket
Penobscot
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
collected early 20th century
Brown ash, Hong Kong cord and sweetgrass
Overall: 5 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (13.3 × 19 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26061
Geography
Place Made: 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.
Spirit of the Basket Tree, Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 20, 2008-June 28, 2009.
Publication History
Jane C. Beck, Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982, 144 pp., ill. p. 64.
[Northern, Tamara]. "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 27 . (Published in conjunctionwith Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
Jennifer Sapiel Neptune, Spirit of the Basket Tree, Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 16.
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1939; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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