Object Details
- Collection History
- Made for and formerly owned by Emma Latham; lent to MAI by Roy Latham (1881-1979, of Orient, New York) in 1921 and never reclaimed.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Montauk
- Artist/Maker
- Phoebe Wells (Phebe Wells), Montauk, b. ca. 1859
- Previous owner
- Emma Latham, Non-Indian
- Roy Latham, Non-Indian, 1881-1979
- Lender
- Roy Latham, Non-Indian, 1881-1979
- Date created
- circa 1870
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Woodsplints, wood, paint
- Techniques
- Plaited, painted, stamped
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
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