Object Details
- Collector
- Ms. E. B. Kavasch
- Donor Name
- Sites Native Harvests
- FOUR COLOR (RED, BLACK, BROWN, NATURAL) DYED CANE TRIANGULAR HEART BASKET WITH CANE TWINED HANDLE IN OVER FOUR, UNDER FOUR PLAIN PLAIT AND OVER FOUR, UNDER FOUR TWILL PLAIT WEAVE. MADE BY CLAUDE MEDFORD, JR., CHOCTAW, 132 1/2 BEHAN STREET, NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457. DESCRIBED AS HERBAL INFUSING BASKET STRAINER ON COLLECTION TAG. CATALOG NUMBERS E430157-E430167 BY SAME ARTIST. COLLECTED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1983.
- Record Last Modified
- 15 Dec 2014
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Choctaw
- Collection Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- 378691
- USNM Number
- E430160-0
- Object Type
- Basket
- Length - Object
- 26 cm
- Width - Object
- 26 cm
- Height - Object
- 27 cm
- Place
- Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8503308
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/323160eca-06db-4e85-bb73-864d2ee23a9c
