Basket With Lid and Two Handles
Sophie Nolett Salvas, Abenaki / Canadian, 1911 - 2007
Abenaki
Wabanaki
First Nation
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
Dr. Gordon M. Day
July 1960
Wood splints, sweetgrass, cellophane cord and red dye
Overall: 8 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (21 × 17.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
160.42.14585
Geography
Place Made: Odanak ( Abenaki First Nations Reserve), Canada, 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
Made by Sophie Nolett Salvas with the assistance of her husband, Euclide Salvas and an unidentified daughter, Odanak, Quebec, Canada; sold to William Bryant, Class of 1962 (Anthropology Professor Dr. Gordon M. Day's summer ethnographic research assistant); sold to present collection, 1960.
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