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Basketry
Basket
First Nations artist, (active )
First Nations artist
Canada
9 x 9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.9 x 22.9 x 32.4 cm)
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Cherry
Cherry
First Nations; made in Fraser River Region, British Columbia, Canada
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19th century, basketry, Native American, Native American art
Basketry
In 1897, after her first husband deserted her and her child, a young nurse named Hattie Lockwood pooled her resources with another friend in Tacoma and determined to build a hospital for injured miners in Skagway, Alaska. On the voyage north, their ship was wrecked in a blizzard; all their building and medical supplies were lost, and the women barely escaped with their lives. After three grueling years in the Alaskan wilderness, Lockwood returned to the United States and eventually married Henry Strong, the first president of Eastman Kodak Co. This and several other baskets the new Mrs. Strong had acquired during her youthful sojourn were later donated to MAG.
The “chainsaw” pattern was designed after First Nations people in British Columbia became aware of logging operations near the Fraser River. The red portions are natural-color cherry bark; the black is cherry bark darkened from being buried in “muck and charcoal.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
1922.12
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
slide
2 x 2
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negative
4 x 5
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22.12DI#1
digital image
3/10/2008
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negative
with 22.3, 22.4, 22.13
8 x 10
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Basketry
Basket
First Nations artist, (active )
First Nations artist
Canada
Primary
8 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 24.8 x 18.4 cm)
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Cherry bark fibers, natural dyes
Cherry bark fibers, natural dyes
First Nations; made in Harrison River Region, British Columbia, Canada
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basketry, Native American, Native American art
Basketry
This coiled basket with its rectangular base and flaring sides was a design usually reserved for work baskets. The coiling technique was often used to create baskets with geometric designs. Coiling begins at the center of a basket’s base and grows upon itself in rounds, each attached to the round before. The colored details are applied over the coiled core by folding a strip of grass, bark, or other fiber accordion-style under each sewing stitch on the outer surface of the basket and fastening it securely.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1926.35
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
26.35DI#1
digital image
26.35_A2.jpg
2/19/2008
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26.35DI#2
digital image
Three-quarter
2/19/2008
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