Contributed by Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine
Description
This simple hoop was used to make flats, which required hundreds of yards of sweetgrass braid and were often used to store sewing notions.
Blocks or molds helped to ensure that the baskets wee a uniform size and shape.
About This Item
- Title: Penobscot sweetgrass flat block, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: ME
- Media: Wood
- Local Code: HM 161
- Object Type: Physical Object
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Basket making--Equipiment and supplies
- Implements, utensils, etc.
- Indian art--North America
- Indians of North America--Maine--Implements
- Native American arts
- Penobscot art
- Penobscot Indians
- Wabanaki Indians
- Sweetgrass baskets
- Tools
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For more information about this item, contact:
Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine5746 Maine Center for the Arts, Orono, ME 04469
(207) 581-1902
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