Basket
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- Date created
- circa 2000
- Culture/People
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Artist/Maker
- Eleanor Ferris Chickaway, Mississippi Choctaw
- Previous owner
- Roger G. Kennedy, Non-Indian, 1926-2011
- Frances Hefren Kennedy (Mrs. Roger G. Kennedy), Non-Indian
- Donor
- Roger G. Kennedy, Non-Indian, 1926-2011
- Frances Hefren Kennedy (Mrs. Roger G. Kennedy), Non-Indian
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of Roger G. Kennedy (former director of the National Park Service and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, 1926-2011) and his wife Frances Hefren Kennedy; donated to NMAI by Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy in 2011.
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- Place
- Conehatta Community, Choctaw Reservation; Newton County; Mississippi; USA
- See related items
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/8536
- Barcode
- 268536.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Cane (Swamp cane/River cane), dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Dyed, twill-plaited, double-woven
- Dimensions
- 65.7 x 15.0 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_400357