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Birdie Steve and Choctaw

Basket

Choctaw, 1992

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Basket

Choctaw, 1992

Physical Qualities Cane(?), blue yellow, and red dyes, 6 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 4 5/16 in. (15.5 × 11.5 × 11 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mary Cumming, Baltimore
Object Number 1993.202
Basket with wrapped handle; bottom has four corner points. Ground is the natural color of cane withes. Design on sides in red, blue, yellow withes. Design is composed of two sets of diagonal red and yellow plaited lines and two sets of diagonal blue and yellow plaited lines which begin at the base of handle go around a bottom corner point and end in the middle of the rim. The resultant pattern is X over each corner point in red and yellow or blue and yellow, and <> in the center of the sides (between corner points), half red and yellow, half blue and yellow.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1993; Mary Cumming, Mobile, Alabama

Artist/Maker

Birdie Steve

2000–2000

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Culture

Choctaw

2000–2000

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