Basket
- Date created
- circa 1800
- Culture/People
- Mohegan
- Artist/Maker
- (unknown first name) Shantup, Mohegan
- Previous owner
- (unknown first name) Shantup, Mohegan
- Possible owner
- Martha Shantup Uncas, Mohegan, 1761-1859
- Previous owner
- Fidelia Fielding (Fidelia Ann Hoscott Smith Fielding), Mohegan, 1827-1908
- Collector
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Previous owner
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Seller
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Collection History
- Made and used by a male member of the Shantup family (Mohegan); inherited by Fidelia Fielding (Fidelia Ann Hoscott Smith Fielding, Mohegan, 1827-1908), possibly through her grandmother, Martha Shantup Uncas (Mohegan, 1761-1859), who was a sister of the artist; collected from Fidelia Fielding by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) between 1902 and 1904; purchased by George Heye from Frank Speck in 1906.
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- Place
- Near Norwich; Norwich; New London County; Connecticut; USA
- See related items
- Mohegan
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 1/1034
- Barcode
- 011034.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Woodsplints, wood
- Techniques
- Wicker-plaited
- Record ID
- NMAI_11853