Basket

Object Name:

Basket

Creator:

Unidentified Wabenaki

Date:

circa1760

Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

H-1.3 W-4.75 D-0.25 inches
Lid: 1" high, 4" diam.

Description:

Hand woven basket with lid, natural with black stripes. Ball basket for knitting work. Paper label (now inside basket; residue visible on exterior) reads, "An 17/ Ball Basket for/ Knitting Work / Date 1760 AG Hanson"
Object Register:
a Basket, The bottom is a Trapazoidal while the top is conical. The pattern copied along the basket is a regular splint with three layers of splint colored black every six layers of side splint. One layer on the bottom is missing side splints. The inside has no coloration. The rim is a single splint wrapped by another, thinner splint.
b Lid. Follows the color pattern of the main basket with the same rim pattern as well. There is a half ring on the top for the handle. The bottom of the lid has no color pattern but does have an "x" to connect the handle.

Provenance:

Donated by Alfred Hanson, who gave several important items to the society during the 1870s. Alfred G. Hanson lived in Weare, NH, in the late 1800s. His family was living in Dover, NH, in the late 1760s when they acquired this basket, probably from local Penacook Abenaki Indians. Earlier in 1700s, Elizabeth Hanson, four of her children and a servant were taken captive by Canadian Indians allied with the French. All were returned save one daughter who married and remained in Canada. The Hanson family history demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between Native American Indians and European Americans throughout the 1700s.

Subjects:

Baskets, Indians of North America

People:

Hanson, Alfred G.

Item Number:

1983.1368

Accession Number:

1983.1368

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Credit Line:

Gift of Alfred G. Hanson

Participating Organization:

Hopkinton Historical Society