Burden basket with burden strap/tumpline
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Mashpee Wampanoag
- Artist/Maker
- Eben Queppish (Mushquipetohkos/Eben Quippish), Mashpee Wampanoag, 1859-1933
- Collector
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Seller
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Collection History
- Collected by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) at an unknown date; purchased by George Heye from Frank Speck in 1907.
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- Date created
- circa 1890
- Catalog Number
- 1/2906
- Barcode
- 012906.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Burden basket with burden strap/tumpline
- Media/Materials
- Woodsplints, wood
- Techniques
- Wicker-plaited, braided
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 31.5 x 33 cm
- Place
- Cape Cod; Barnstable County; Massachusetts; USA
- See related items
- Mashpee Wampanoag
- Containers and Vessels
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_13701
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws659c48948-be3c-46ce-b4eb-aa40bea3194e
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