Barrel Basket

Penobscot
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
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collected early 20th century

Brown ash, Aniline dye, Hong Kong cord and sweetgrass

Overall: 12 3/8 × 10 7/8 in. (31.5 × 27.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26060

Geography

Place Made: 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

Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-August 18, 2019.

Spirit of the Basket Tree, Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 20, 2008-June 28, 2009.

Vermont's Ethnic Heritage 1791-1991, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, April 23 - August 15, 1991.

Publication History

Robert Shaw, America's Traditional Crafts, Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (Distributed by Macmillan Publishing Company, New York), 1993, ill. p. 117

Jane C. Beck, Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982, 144 pp., ill. p.73.

Robert Shaw, American Baskets, 1st ed., New York: Clarkson Potter, 2000, 216 pp., ill. p. 90.

Jennifer Sapiel Neptune, Spirit of the Basket Tree, Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 16.

Provenance

Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1939; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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