Barrel Basket

NameBasket

Artist or maker Clara Neptune Keezer

Collective/Group NEA National Heritage Fellow

CulturePassamaquoddy

Date2003

Place madePleasant Point, Maine, United States, North America

MediumBrown ash, sweetgrass, commercial dyes

Dimensions8 7/8 × 6 5/16 × 6 5/16 in. (22.5 × 16 × 16 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2017.19.1ab

Object numberFA.2017.19.1ab

Collections

NEA National Heritage Fellows

DescriptionLidded basket. Botton of the basket is flared into a round foot. Towards the top are two hanging handles, one on either side. The majority of the basket is constructed out of naturally colored ash splints, excepting patterns of purple and pink at the bottom, top and lid of the basket. The very center of the lid has a raised decoration made of curled flat ash splints