Basket, Trinket
- Object Name:
- Basket, Trinket
- Object ID:
- 1999.022
- Creator:
- Brink, Jeanne
Basketmaker - Place of Origin:
- Barre, VT
- Date:
- 1999
- Description:
- Lidded basket, made by Jeanne A. Brink, 1999. Materials include brown ash wood splints (1/16" wide weavers; 20 staves) and strands of sweetgrass. The materials were left in their natural colors: light yellow-brown ash wood and green to brown sweetgrass. The pattern woven into the basket includes narrow bands of sweetgrass, including 2 bands on the basket, 2 in the body of the lid, 1 in the center of the lid, and 1 at the rim of the lid. A ring is added to the lid's center; the ring is wrapped with brown ash splint. Signed and dated by the artist on the bottom, "JB" encircled, and "10-99". 3.25" high, 3.25" diam.
Object Register: A Lid. 1.25" tall 1,75" with top ring, 3.25" diam. B Base 2.25" tall, 3.1" diam. - Material:
- Wood
Grass
Ash - Dimensions:
- H-3.25 Dia-3.25 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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