Basket with cover
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- Date created
- circa 1970
- Culture/People
- Coushatta (Koasati)
- Artist/Maker
- Rosabel Sylestine, Coushatta (Koasati), 1923-1998
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Collection History
- Acquired by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from an unknown source at an unknown date; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Elton; Jefferson Davis Parish; Louisiana; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Coushatta (Koasati)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1704
- Barcode
- 261704.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Pine needles, raffia, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Coiled, dyed
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 10.5 x 7.4 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277810