Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Dr. Margaret Johnston Sharpe (1903-1981, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); donated to MAI by Dr. Sharpe in 1950.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Chitimacha
- Previous owner
- Dr. Margaret J. Sharpe (Margaret Johnston Sharpe), Non-Indian, 1903-1981
- Donor
- Dr. Margaret J. Sharpe (Margaret Johnston Sharpe), Non-Indian, 1903-1981
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane)
- Techniques
- Plaited, twill-plaited
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
