"Fancy" Basket with Handle
Emma Mitchell Safford, Wampanoag / American, 1847 - 1932
Wampanoag
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
early 20th century
Ash splints (warp and weft), sweetgrass braids and plaiting technique
Overall: 5 1/2 × 9 × 5 13/16 in. (14 × 22.8 × 14.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Patricia W. Clement
986.61.26661
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.
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
Emma Safford (supposedly the maker's daughter, perhaps adopted); given to Althea Wilder (1894-1981); to her daughter Patricia Wilder Clement (1929-1999), Springfield, Vermont; given to present collection, 1986.
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