Glass vase with a basketry coating. [BH [OPS Move] 2/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Glass vase with a basketry coating. [BH [OPS Move] 2/11/2016]
Long description: Glass vase with a basketry coating. Comprising plaited or woven basketry. A narrow neck with a wide rim. Bands of green and pink woven into the exterior. Two circular handles, with pink plant fibre around them. [BH [OPS Move] 2/11/2016]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Northeastern USA Maine
Cultural groups: Penobscot
Person: Field collector Ann McMullen; PRM source Ann McMullen
Date / Period: Date made: 1985-1990
Date collected: 15 June 1991
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1991
Materials and processes: Material Ash Wood Plant, Material Sweetgrass Fibre Plant, Material Glass, Process Woven, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Diameter: max 100 mm, Height: max 116 mm, Width: max 117 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1992.1.5
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as figure 28 on page 26 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘Fancy baskets. Useful forms like the pocketbook and more fanciful shapes such as the cup and saucer and typical of 20th century manufacture. Continuity of production of earlier types and innovations like the vase continue side by side. USA, Maine, ?Penobscot. Pocketbook of splints and braided sweetgrass. Made c. 1975. H: 260 mm, L: 200 mm; W: 100 mm. 1992.1.7 NE Woodlands, ?Micmac. Splint cup and saucer with sweetgrass trim. H cup: 55 mm; dia saucer 130 mm. 1992.1.1 USA, Maine, ?Penobscot. Vase of splints and braided sweetgrass. Glass liner. H: 115 mm; dia: 100 mm. 1992.1.5 Collected by Ann McMullen, 1991.’ [MJD 16/01/2013]

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