Oblong Birch Bark Basket with Lid
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe / Chippewa)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1900
Birch bark, spruce root, wood, porcupine quills, thread, dye
Overall: 3 1/8 × 4 1/8 × 6 7/16 in. (8 × 10.5 × 16.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9562
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
Exhibition History
Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2024 - late 2025.
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.
Native American Designs of the Northern Woodlands, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 20, 1995-February 9, 1997.
Publication History
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 115 and p. 173, no. 143.
Provenance
Unknown maker, Odana, Wisconsin; sold to Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Minnesota, about 1900-1908; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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