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basket with lid, sweetgrass
basket with lid, sweetgrass
basket with lid, sweetgrass
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Nation of Maker:
Anishinaabe
Odawa
Place of Origin:
Michigan (Northern Michigan), USA
Date Made or Date Range:
before 1914
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Materials
sweetgrass; birchbark; black thread; split root; basswood or cedar; porcupine quills dyed pink and green.
Techniques or Format
The base of the basket and the lid are birchbark, with wrapped sweetgrass bunches forming the sides of the basket as well as the sides of the lid.
Provenance
Current Location:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
L-84-100 a-b
Date of Acquisition by the Institution:
1936
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context:
1880-1914
Collection Narratives and Histories
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP)
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
26805
Record Creation Context
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 6 2010.
Record Creation Notes/Observations
Researchers present: Adriana Greci-Green, David Penny, Stacey Loyer, Coralie Boeykens