Basket with cover
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Penobscot
- Previous owner
- Roger G. Kennedy, Non-Indian, 1926-2011
- Frances Hefren Kennedy (Mrs. Roger G. Kennedy), Non-Indian
- Donor
- Roger G. Kennedy, Non-Indian, 1926-2011
- Frances Hefren Kennedy (Mrs. Roger G. Kennedy), Non-Indian
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Black ash/brown ash splints, sweetgrass
- Techniques
- Braided, wicker-plaited
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 36.3 cm
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Place
- Maine; USA (inferred)
- Date created
- 1900-1940
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of Roger G. Kennedy (former director of the National Park Service and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, 1926-2011) and his wife Frances Hefren Kennedy; donated to NMAI by Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy in 2011.
- Catalog Number
- 26/8535
- Barcode
- 268535.000
- See related items
- Penobscot
- 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