Basket

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

Culture/People
Choctaw
Previous owner
Pauline Lewis, Choctaw
Collector
Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
Collection History
Collected from Pauline Lewis (Choctaw) in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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Catalog Number
1/8446
Barcode
018446.000
Object Type
Containers and Vessels
Indigenous Term
a buk i zhon gwi ni
Object Name
Basket
Media/Materials
Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
Techniques
Twill-plaited
Place
Near Wortham; Saint Tammany Parish; Louisiana; USA
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Choctaw
Containers and Vessels
National Museum of the American Indian
Record ID
NMAI_19694
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws604116d0d-5759-4c45-8a6a-f196ef2a49c2
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