DepartmentUnited States & Canada

Sewing Basket

NameBasket, Sewing

Artist or maker Mary Jane Manigault

Collective/Group NEA National Heritage Fellow

CultureAfrican American

Date1979

Place madeMount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States, North America

Mediumfiber, sweetgrass, palmetto, pine needles

Dimensions12 5/8 × 10 1/16 in. (32 × 25.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the International Folk Art Foundation, A.1980.10.14 V

Object numberA.1980.10.14 V

Collections

NEA National Heritage Fellows

DescriptionBasketry: coiled sweet grass sewn with palmetto and trimmed with pine needles. Stacked basket is divided into three parts. The bottom of the top 2 form lids for part below. Each section has 2 handles; light tan.