Basket with cover
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Chitimacha
- Previous owner
- Helen Pep Grodka (Helen Groz Pep/A Tehom Win/Mrs. Frederick B. Grodka), Non-Indian, 1898-1982
- Donor
- Sonia Grodka Blumenthal (Sonia Dorothy Grodka), Non-Indian
- Harry W. Blumenthal, Non-Indian, 1924-2013
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited, double-woven
- Dimensions
- 8.9 x 11.4 cm
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Place
- Louisiana; USA
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by Helen Pep Grodka (1898-1982, an artist and Native American art enthusiast) at an antique show in New York in 1969; donated to MAI in 1982 by Helen Pep Grodka's daughter and son-in-law, Sonia Grodka Blumenthal and Harry W. Blumenthal (1924-2013).
- Catalog Number
- 25/1354
- Barcode
- 251354.000
- 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