Sewing Basket with Needle Case and Pincushion

Theresa Secord, Penobscot / American, born 1958
Penobscot
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands

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2008

Brown ash, yellow cedar bark, sweetgrass, blueberry and raspberry dyes

Overall: 5 1/2 × 10 7/8 in. (14 × 27.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

2008.68

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

21st century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed on exterior bottom center, yellow ink: Theresa Secord; dated, on exterior bottom center, on splint perpendicular to inscription above, in yellow ink: 2008 Penobscot

Course History

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

NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021

NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021

NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021

Exhibition History

Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 17-December 30, 2019.

Native New England Now: Celebrating Six Years of NEFA's Native Arts program, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, Connecticut, October 5, 2013-January 4, 2014.

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.

Publication History

Nw England Foundation for the Arts, Native New England Now: Celebrating Native Arts at NEFA, Boston: NEFA, 2013, 38 pp., ill. p. 28.

Provenance

The artist, Waterville, Maine; sold to present collection, 2008.

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