Related Records

1. Fruit basket - Round, splint basket. Walls are wicker-weave, alternate bands of fine orange and brown weavers on brown standards, one band of curled splints at the rim. Rim edged with sweetgrass. Remnants of handles on each side.

   Basket, Fruit

   Record Type: Object

   
2. Gathering basket - Round splint basket with handle. Tapered walls are wicker weave: alternate purple and natural standards with bands of rainbow weavers in aqua, blue, purple, yellow and natural. Base has attached crossed splint reinforcement around circumference. Rigid carved ash handle. Rim is banded with splint reinforcement and sweetgrass.

   Basket, Gathering

   Record Type: Object

   
3. Market basket - Rectangular splint basket with handles. Wicker-weave walls with a triple band of wide weavers mid-wall, twill-woven base. Brown standards with multicolor weavers: blue, orange, yellow (faded). Pair of carved ash drop handles, holes carved in ends. Base reinforcement made with multiple thin weavers wrapped with splint.

   Basket, market

   Record Type: Object

   
4. Needlework basket - Rectangular splint basket with lid. Checker-weave base and lid in rainbow colors: green, blue, purple, red and brown. Base is divided in two compartments. Written in pencil on base: "K 0."

   Basket, Needlework

   Record Type: Object

   
5. Picture frame - Rectangular birch bark frame. Outer white bark on frame front, inside of window is painted with a profile of a man in a feather war bonnet in black, white, blue, brown. Basswood hanging ring on top. Inscribed in pencil on back: "20."

   Frame, Picture

   Record Type: Object

   
6. Sewing basket - Round, splint basket. Straight walls with a band of curled splints in petal variation at base and broad weaver with bands of wicker-weave on each side. Pink, blue, and yellow weavers on brown standards. Reinforcement around base. Sweet grass around rim. May have had a lid.

   Basket, Sewing

   Record Type: Object

   
7. Sewing basket - Round, splint basket with attached lid. Flat lid is fine wicker-weave with loop handle in center, sweetgrass edging, and attached flange. Rigid bail handle is captured within the edge of lid. Base has tapered walls, fine wicker-weave, tapered walls with band of curled splints in petal pattern midway. Bands of red splint (faded) contrast with original natural color. Bottom of base has attached splint reinforcement. Written in pencil on bottom of base: "co."

   Basket, Sewing

   Record Type: Object

   
8. Sewing basket - Round, splint basket with lid. Base has wicker-weave walls: sweetgrass braid weavers on rainbow standards (red, yellow, blue, brown). Lid has swirl pattern of braided sweetgrass weavers and remnants of braided sweetgrass frog handle. Pencil marks on the bottom

   Basket, Sewing

   Record Type: Object

   
9. Sewing basket - Round, splint basket with lid. Base wall has one row of green curled splints in petal variation with intermediate weavers of blue and red, wide weaver near the top on brown standards. The base has an attached splint as a foot. Lid has wicker lid top, brown standards with bands of rainbow weavers: red, dark and light blue, yellow, and green, band of curled green splint in petal variation with intermediate weavers of blue and red on the walls, sweetgrass around rim; brown-dyed braided basswood handle on top. Written on base in pencil: "mx."

   Basket, Sewing

   Record Type: Object

   
10. Sewing basket - Round splint basket with lid. Walls of base are wicker-weave with one wide weaver, a band of curled splints at the base with sweetgrass braid wound through the curls, splint reinforcement around base. Lid is wicker-weave with same curls and sweetgrass braid design, additional sweetgrass braid weavers in center, sweetgrass edge and braided basswood handle. Brown splint standards and weavers.

    Basket, Sewing

    Record Type: Object

    
11. Tray - Splint tray basket. Twill-weave sides and base, ash reinforcement around rim. Carved ash ear handles on each end. Painted with aqua paint.

    Basket, Tray

    Record Type: Object

    
12. Triket box - Round box with lid. Lid is decorated with quill satin-stitch brown and green acorn on white quill background. Perimeter of lid has sawtooth design and fully quilled sides with sweetgrass edging.

    Box, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
13. Trinket basket - Round birch bark box with lid. Lid has a floral design with a three-petal, satin stitch pink flower with knotted quill center and green stem. Edge of lid is fully quilled with sawtooth edge bordering the perimeter of the lid with stripes of red/pink quills each quarter and sweetgrass edge. Base is fully quilled in natural quills with stripes of red/pink that match the lid. Written in pencil on the bottom: "60."

    Box, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
14. Trinket basket - Round birch bark box with lid. Lid has stylized quill floral design on an open birch bark ground: white blossom is satin-stitch with satin-stitch green leaves and a green stem. Edge of lid is fully quilled with sawtooth edge bordering the perimeter of the top and sweetgrass along the lower edge. The base is fully quilled with a black ash splint reinforcement inside the rim. Written in pencil on bottom: "AX/95."

    Box, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
15. Trinket basket - Round splint and sweetgrass basket with lid. Sweetgrass weavers on brown-dyed black ash standards. Edge of lid has additional band of sweetgrass bound with ash splint.

    Basket, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
16. Trinket basket - Round splint and sweetgrass basket with lid. Sweetgrass weavers on brown-dyed black ash standards. Edge of lid has additional band of sweetgrass bound with ash splint. Written in pencil on base: "60."

    Basket, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
17. Trinket basket - Round splint and sweetgrass basket with lid. Sweetgrass weavers on green-dyed black ash standards, sweetgrass edge, bound with splint on lid.

    Basket, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
18. Trinket box - Oval birch bark box with lid. Lid has quill satin-stitch yellow bird with sprays of pink knotted quill flowers (or berries) with green stem & leaves. Straight edged band of white quills around perimeter with three stripes of yellow quills on each side. Base is fully quilled in white with stripes of yellow. Written in pencil on base: "los."

    Box, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
19. Trinket box - Oval box with lid. Lid is decorated with quill floral design on open birch bark ground, yellow satin-stitch three petal blossom with knotted center, green leaves and stem. Perimeter of lid has sawtooth design and fully quilled sides with sweetgrass edging. Base wall is fully quilled with natural and yellow to match lid, splint reinforcement inside rim. Written in pencil on bottom "KX."

    Box, Trinket

    Record Type: Object

    
20. Trinket box - Rectangular birch bark box with dome lid. Lid has quill floral design of six-petaled white blossoms and buds, green stems and leaves and green and white diamond around sides of lid on open birch bark ground. Curved hip edges are sewn together with crossed quills, edging of white quills is attached with thread. Same decorative motif on base. Latch and side handles made of birch bark. Written in pencil on base: "lux/300"

    Box, Trinket

    Record Type: Object