Berry Basket

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collected 1905

Split spruce root (warp and weft), bear grass (false embroidery design), dyes (faded) twining and false embroidery (a variation of three-strand twining) techniques

Overall: 7 11/16 × 8 1/16 in. (19.5 × 20.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9393

Geography

Place Made: Sitka, 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.

The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, Massachusetts, March 10-May 29, 1994.

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

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Sitka, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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