Basket with cover
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Chitimacha
- Previous owner
- Clara Darden (Clara Dardin), Chitimacha, ca. 1829-1910
- Seller
- Delphine Stouff (Delphine Stouffe), Chitimacha, 1872-1940
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited, double-woven
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Native Term
- shu shu gu
- Place
- Near Baldwin; Baldwin; Saint Mary Parish; Louisiana; USA
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by Clara Darden (Chitimacha, ca. 1829-1910); purchased from her niece, Delphine Stouff (Chitimacha, 1872-1940), in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
- Catalog Number
- 1/8386
- Barcode
- 018386.000
- See related items
- Chitimacha
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement