Mary Doctor and Seminole
Basket
Seminole, 1992
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Sweet grass, wood, green, red, dark blue, yellow, brown, and medium blue threads, 3 7/16 × 8 9/16 × 6 7/8 in. (8.8 × 21.8 × 17.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Cumming, Baltimore
Object Number
1993.203
Constructed of coils of sweet grass bound together with colored thread. Thread passes from front to back in diagonal stitch creating vertical rows of \1 - shaped stitches on inside and outside. The \ portion of the stitch is longer on the inside than on the outside. Vertical rows composed of alternating blocks of color, from top to bottom: green, red, dark blue, yellow, brown, medium blue. Bottom is circle of wood (?) attached to coils with thread. Handles are extensions of coils, protruding from the basket sides, wrapped in green thread which is part of stitchwork.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1993; Mary Cumming, Mobile, Alabama, by purchase at Poarch Creek Indian Pow Wow.
