Utility Basket
Cherokee
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Southeast
about 1900
River cane splints (warp and weft), hickory bark (outer rim wrapping), oak (handle), native dyes; twill plaiting technique; Chief's Daughters with Cross pattern
Overall: 12 1/2 × 9 7/16 × 9 7/16 in. (31.8 × 24 × 24 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9535
Geography
Place Made: Cherokee, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southeast
Not on view
Inscriptions
Pyrographed, on handle: Cherokee Indians
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
Unknown maker, Cherokee, North Carolina; collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Cherokee, North Carolina, 1908-1909; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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