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Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Chitimacha
- Previous owner
- Governor James E. Boyd (James Edward Boyd), Non-Indian, 1834-1906
- Margaret Gannett Elton (Mrs. John Edward Elton), Non-Indian, ca. 1907-1975
- Donor
- Margaret Gannett Elton (Mrs. John Edward Elton), Non-Indian, ca. 1907-1975
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Place
- Louisiana; USA
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; said to have been collected by James E. Boyd (1834-1906), an Omaha, Nebraska, businessman and governor of Nebraska from 1891 to 1893); acquired by Margaret Gannett Elton (ca. 1907-1975), who may have been a distant relative of Governor Boyd’s, at an unknown date; donated to MAI by Mrs. Elton in 1971.
- Catalog Number
- 24/4262
- Barcode
- 244262.000
- 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