Trinket Basket
Makah
Northwest Coast
collected early 20th century
Split cedar bark (bottom and warp), rush (bottom), bear grass stems (weft), dyes plaiting and three-strand twining (bottom) and wrapped twining (sides and lid) technique
Overall: 2 3/16 × 3 1/4 in. (5.5 × 8.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Emily W. and George H. Browne
42.12.8508
Geography
Place Made: Cape Flattery, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
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.
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
Collected by George H. Browne (1857-1931) and Emily Robbins Webster Browne (1861-1942), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given (by Miss Ellen A. Webster, Emily Browne's sister) to present collection, 1942.
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