Winnowing basket
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Artist/Maker
- Sweenie Willis (Sweeny Willis/Mrs. Bill W. Willis), Mississippi Choctaw, 1902-1977
- Collector
- William F. Stiles (WFS), Non-Indian, 1912-1980
- Object Name
- Winnowing basket
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Place
- Pearl River Community, Choctaw Reservation; Neshoba County; Mississippi; USA
- Date created
- 1965
- Collection History
- Collected in 1965 by William F. Stiles (1912-1980, MAI curator) during MAI-sponsored fieldwork.
- Catalog Number
- 23/6404
- Barcode
- 236404.000
- See related items
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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