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29-175-712
From: United States of America | Louisiana | Baldwin
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-712 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chitimacha |
| Provenience | United States of America | Louisiana | Baldwin |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cane (plant) |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Small, Squarish, rounded bottom with pointed corners, rounded sides and top. Cane; twilled plaiting in 3 over 4 under weave. Rim finished by intertwining the splints. Pattern created on sides by letting the rough inside of the vertical splints face outward as do all splints on bottom; shiny surface left out on horizon-tal splints. |
| Height | 9.1 cm |
| Length | 16 cm |
| Width | 16.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 1/8392 - Collector Number |
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