Melon Basket

possibly Passamaquoddy
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands

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about 1960

White ash, metal nails

Overall: 8 7/16 × 9 1/8 × 8 7/16 in. (21.5 × 23.2 × 21.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

160.35.14546

Geography

Place Made: Princeton, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Course History

NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020

Exhibition History

The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.

Provenance

Shop on the shore of Big Lake, Pinceton, Maine; sold to Professor Alfred F. Whiting for the Dartmouth College Museum, July 1960.

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