Box with cover
Usage conditions apply
- Culture/People
- Chitimacha
- Artist/Maker
- Ada V. Thomas, Chitimacha, 1924-1992
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Qualla Arts & Crafts Cooperative/Qualla Arts & Crafts Coop/Qualla Crafts), 1946-
- IACB source
- Ada V. Thomas, Chitimacha, 1924-1992
- Object Name
- Box with cover
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Dyed, twill-plaited, double-woven
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 35.5 x 32 cm
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Place
- Charenton; Saint Mary Parish; Louisiana; USA
- Date created
- 1980
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist through the Qualla Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Cherokee, North Carolina) in 1980; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
- Catalog Number
- 25/5565
- Barcode
- 255565.000
- See related items
- Chitimacha
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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