Trinket Basket

Makah
Northwest Coast

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collected early 20th century

Split cedar bark (bottom and warp), rush (bottom), bear grass stems (weft), dyes plaiting and three-strand twining (bottom) and wrapped twining (sides and lid) technique

Overall: 2 3/16 × 3 1/4 in. (5.5 × 8.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Emily W. and George H. Browne

42.12.8508

Geography

Place Made: Cape Flattery, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Exhibition History

Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991.

Publication History

Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.

Provenance

Collected by George H. Browne (1857-1931) and Emily Robbins Webster Browne (1861-1942), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given (by Miss Ellen A. Webster, Emily Browne's sister) to present collection, 1942.

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