Object Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
01:15 |
Object Name |
Basket - Knitting |
Description |
Tall knitting basket with cover and round handles on either side. Cover has small splint handle in center. Brown and natural splints alternate with 2 rows of curled "faces weave" splints to form center of basket body and 1 row around cover. Two bands of splints at center of body feature a chain or "closed box" motif. Circular wrapped ash splints at opposite sides of body of basket. Splints are hand painted/stained on the outside surface only before woven into basket. |
Title |
Untitled |
Date Created |
2000 |
Artist |
Sickles, Katie |
Culture |
Iroquois |
Nation |
Oneida |
Community |
Oneida, Ont. |
Dimensions |
H-41 Dia-24 cm |
Material |
Black Ash |
Medium |
basketry |
Technique |
faces and closed box weaves |