Basket with cover
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Minnesota Chippewa
- Artist/Maker
- Ellen Johnson, Minnesota Chippewa
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB Source
- St. Louis County Historical Society
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the St. Louis County Historical Society (Duluth, Minnesota) in 1984; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1984
- Catalog Number
- 25/5399
- Barcode
- 255399.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Black ash/brown ash splints, dye/dyes, sweetgrass
- Techniques
- Dyed, wicker-plaited, fancy plaited weave, wrapped
- Dimensions
- 15.50 x 22.00 x 22.00 cm
- Place
- Park Rapids; Hubbard County; Minnesota; USA
- See related items
- Minnesota Chippewa
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_271264
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws671cba3d2-7b88-4c3a-b3de-76e013cc6a21
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