- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rectangular woodsplint basket with chequer plaited base. [MOBB [OPS move] 2/11/2016]
- Long description
- Rectangular woodsplint basket with chequer plaited base. Dark beige coloured basket with cone shaped curled ash embellishment for three bands above the bottom and below the top rim. Vertical woven decoration at the top rim and two oval handles, also embellished with curled ash decoration, attached to the short sides of the basket. [MOBB [OPS move] 2/11/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Native American
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1850-1950?, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1991
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1991
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Ash Wood Plant, Process Woven, Process Chequer Plaited, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Width: max 170 mm, Height: max 125 mm, Length: max 184 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1991.23.1
- Research and responses
Monkton may refer to Moncton in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, near the province of Nova Scotia. [CF 23/7/2002]
A very similar basket to this is in the collection of the Passamaquoddy Museum at Pleasant Point, Maine. LM.
1991.23.1
Rectangular woodsplint basket with chequer plaited base. [MOBB [OPS move] 2/11/2016]
1991.23.1
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