Basket

Object Name:

Basket

Creator:

Unidentified Wabenaki

Date:

circa1860

Material:

Wood
Hair

Dimensions:

H-1.3 W-4.75 D-0.25 inches

Description:

Hair Receiver Basket, with Lid. Ash splint and sweetgrass. Cylindrical shape.
.1 Basket. Small, round, handwoven. Bottom purple. Contains human hair. The body of the basket is symmetrical top to bottom. On bottom and top layers there are ash splints clearly woven together. In the middle, there are alternating patterns of sweet grass bands ad thin ash splint bands. The rim is woven ash into a ribbon like pattern. On the inside, there is a wooden rod tied to the basket with purple wrappings. Inside, the patterns seen on the outside are copied but the top and bottom large splint weavings are colored purple and are fading. The middle thin splints are colored red but have greatly faded. The inside bottom is also colored purple and has human hair scattered around with dust.
.2 Lid. Lifting ring on top. Underside has a circular patterned purple design. The top has a ring to hold onto and a splint pattern where all splints are going toward the center. Sweet grass is inter woven in the lid every other splint. By the perspective of the top, the lid is concave.

Provenance:

Hair is from one of the Putney children.
Basket is Native American made, Wabenaki.

Subjects:

Baskets, Childhood youth, Children, Keepsakes, Hair, Indians of North America, Indigenous peoples

People:

Hanson, Rose Putney, Putney Family

Item Number:

2002.0002

Accession Number:

2002.0002

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Participating Organization:

Hopkinton Historical Society