Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Choctaw Craft Association (Philadelphia, Mississippi) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Artist/Maker
- Sweenie Willis (Sweeny Willis/Mrs. Bill W. Willis), Mississippi Choctaw, 1902-1977
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Choctaw Craft Association (Choctaw Craft Association)
- Date created
- 1964
- Object Name
- Miniature basket
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane), dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited, dyed
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 4.2 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
