Cedar Bark Basket

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Cedar Bark Basket
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Artist/Maker
Date1850-1900
MediumNatural and dyed cedar bark
DimensionsOverall: 19 7/8 in. × 24 3/4 in. × 15 in. (50.5 × 62.9 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineCollection of Hamilton College
Object number1984.500
Not on view

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1985
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Wonderful Heroes, Fearsome Creatures," November 2 - December 14, 1985 (cat. no. 44, illus. 38).
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
by 1979 - 1984: Hamilton College (Anthropology Department);
likely by 1925: Hamilton College (likely Knox Hall of Natural History), likely by gift from an unknown donor (research pending).
Published References WONDERFUL HEROES FEARSOME CREATURES: ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1985), 38, illus. 38.
Unknown artist
Date: 1850-1900
Medium: Natural and dyed cedar bark
Object number: 1984.501
Trinket basket
Unknown artist
Date: 1850-1925
Medium: Cedar bark and beargrass and dyes
Object number: 1989.3.8a-b
Unknown artist
Date: 1850-1900
Medium: Cedar bark
Object number: 1984.499
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Unknown artist
Date: date unknown
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1989.3.2
Basket
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1925
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1989.3.6
Woven Basket
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1989.3.11
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1996.15.36
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1996.15.35
Woven Basket
Unknown artist
Date: date unknown
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root
Object number: 1996.15.37
Trinket basket
Unknown artist
Date: 1850-1925
Medium: Cedar and dyes
Object number: 1989.3.9a-b
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Spruce root with maiden hair fern and natural and dyed grass
Object number: 1984.495
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Spruce root and natural and dyed grass
Object number: 1984.496