birchbark folded basket with lid; square base, circular opening, circular lid; light brown with darker brown designs: tulip-like flowers on sides, a deer on front, floral design on back; two areas of knots in wood on L side; stiches mending a vertical crack from rim to top of deer; panels secured on either side with straight stitches; looped stitches over rim; white, raw birch bark interior; flat lid with dark brown leather pull looped through center, tied to stretcher bar on underside; lid top decorated with floral design with triangular pattern around edge and straps attaching bottom lip worked into triangular pattern

Basket, 2001

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Gift of Jane Emisonexpand_more  2019.123.1a,b

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The artist who created this basket folded birchback and then secured each side and the bottom onto a flat square base using a straight, looped stitching. She/he then finished the basket by securing a circular lid onto the top of the vessel. Anishinaabe birchbark baskets have been created for personal use and exchange for centuries, and probably millennia.

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birchbark folded basket with lid; square base, circular opening, circular lid; light brown with darker brown designs: tulip-like flowers on sides, a deer on front, floral design on back; two areas of knots in wood on L side; stiches mending a vertical crack from rim to top of deer; panels secured on either side with straight stitches; looped stitches over rim; white, raw birch bark interior; flat lid with dark brown leather pull looped through center, tied to stretcher bar on underside; lid top decorated with floral design with triangular pattern around edge and straps attaching bottom lip worked into triangular pattern