Small Basket with Lid

Penobscot
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands

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1894

Brown ash and sweetgrass

Overall: 2 3/8 × 3 7/16 × 3 3/8 in. (6 × 8.8 × 8.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Putnam W. Blogett, Class of 1953, Tuck 1961

2013.91.5

Geography

Place Made: Old Town, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on bottom: July 22, 1894 / Old Town Indian[s]

Course History

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

Provenance

Collected by Charlotte T. Blodgett (1906-1996) and Wentworth Putnam Blodgett (1901-1980), in Maine, 1960s; given to their son, Putnam W. Blodgett (1931-2020), Lyme, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2013.

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