Ornament, Household
- Object Name:
- Ornament, Household
- Object ID:
- 1989.035.14
- Creator:
- Native American Indian
- Place of Origin:
- North America: Northeast
- Date:
- 1920-1930
- Description:
- Sweetgrass coils around birchbark disk. Disk has small amount of undyed porcupine quill work (pattern undetermined). Coils stitched with black thread. Openwork zig-zag around disk. Flat.
- Material:
- Grass
Skeletal
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-0.125 Dia-6 inches
- Provenance:
- Found in Davis Homestead. Contoocook or Davisvillle, NH. At time of gift, "sweetgrass basket made by local Indian weavers during the 1920s."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret Davis
- People:
- Davis, Margaret (1916-2009)
- Subjects:
- Native Americans
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