Demonstration kit/items
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- IACB source
- Stephen M. Richmond, Non-Indian, 1920-2000
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Object Name
- Demonstration kit/items
- Media/Materials
- White oak splint/splints, dye/dyes, wood
- Techniques
- Dyed, wrapped, carved, plaited, wicker-plaited
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 10.1 x 13.3 cm
- Object Type
- Basketmaking and fiber-working tools
- Place
- Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary; Jackson County and Swain County; North Carolina; USA (inferred)
- Date created
- 1964
- Collection History
- Donated to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board by Stephen M. Richmond (1920-2004, IACB field representative to the Cherokee) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
- Catalog Number
- 25/5692
- Barcode
- 255692.000
- See related items
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Basketmaking and fiber-working tools
- 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