Double Basket
29-175-710
From: United States of America | North Carolina
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-710 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cherokee |
| Provenience | United States of America | North Carolina |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Oak | Pigments |
| Technique | Dyed |
| Description | Square with flat bottom; pointed corners; fairly straight sides, somewhat round top; oak splints; twilled plaiting in under 3 over 3 weave both inside and outside. Rim: splints turned over and caught between the two layers or continued some to other side. Decoration: some splints dyed red; too faded to follow either inside or outside design. Probably aniline dyes. Quite heavy. |
| Height | 11.8 cm |
| Length | 22.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 28 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 1/9195 - Collector Number |
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