Winnowing Basket
29-175-717
From: United States of America | Mississippi | Neshoba County | Scott County (Mississippi)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-717 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Choctaw |
| Provenience | United States of America | Mississippi | Neshoba County | Scott County (Mississippi) |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cane (plant) |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Flat with one end raised high and sides sloping downward from pointed corners and becoming flat about midway of length; cane; twilled plaiting in 5 over 2 under on bottom, 3 over 3 under on end. Rim: bound securely by looping and inter twining strips. Decoration across entire end by reversing cane so coarse side is outward; also bands of same- involving either the horizontal or vertical strips, but not both, across one end of bottom and up sides. Broken in middle. |
| Height | 20.5 cm |
| Length | 47 cm |
| Width | 34.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 1/9128 - Collector Number |
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