Rib Basket
Cherokee
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Southeast
about 1908
Oak wood splints and dye
Overall: 8 1/4 × 5 1/16 × 9 5/16 in. (21 × 12.9 × 23.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9558
Geography
Place Made: Cherokee, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southeast
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, Massachusettes, March 10-May 29, 1994.
Provenance
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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