Basket
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Previous owner
- Margaret Roberts, Non-Indian, 1869-1952
- Anna-May Williams (Anna May Roberts/Mrs. Fred H. Williams), Non-Indian, 1903-1995
- Joanne Williams Thomas (Mrs. Alfred B. Thomas, Jr.), Non-Indian
- Donor
- Anna-May Williams (Anna May Roberts/Mrs. Fred H. Williams), Non-Indian, 1903-1995
- Joanne Williams Thomas (Mrs. Alfred B. Thomas, Jr.), Non-Indian
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane), wood
- Techniques
- Plaited, twill-plaited
- Dimensions
- 36 x 23 cm
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Place
- North Carolina; USA
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Miss Margaret Roberts (1869-1952, of Slatington, Pennsylvania); inherited by her niece Anna-May Roberts Williams (Mrs. Fred H. Williams, 1903-1995); donated to MAI by Mrs. Williams and her daughter Joanne Williams Thomas (Mrs. Alfred B. Thomas, Jr.) in 1970.
- Catalog Number
- 24/4078
- Barcode
- 244078.000
- See related items
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- 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