Fancy Basket
Mary Mitchell Gabriel, Passamaquoddy / American, 1908 - 2004
Passamaquoddy
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
1989
Brown ash and sweetgrass
Overall: 10 × 11 1/4 in. (25.4 × 28.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman '40 Acquisitions Fund
2007.40.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in blue ink, bottom center: Mary Gabriel / 89
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
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
Jennifer Sapiel Neptune, Spirit of the Basket Tree, Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 19.
Provenance
Waite Akins, Brewer, Maine; sold to Barbara Thompson [for the Hood Museum], July 7, 2007; sold to present collection, July 11, 2007.
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