Porcupine Basket
Porcupine basket with lid. Wicker (plaited), warp and weft are ash splints, design patterns are in porcupine twist. Colors of ash splint are red, green, brown, orange, blue and pink. Interior horizontal splints are much darker than exterior. Rim finish is a bundle of sweet grass, held on to basket with thin ends crossed ash splints. Lid has small loops of ash splint.
- Object: Porcupine Basket
- Artist: Unknown
- Circa: -
- Dimensions: 2 1/2 x 3 1/4
- Culture Area: Northeast
- Cultural Group: Algonquian
- Cultural Context: -
- Donor: Betty B. Goshay
- Catalog #: 97.250