Storage Basket

Creek culture, Southeastern Woodlands region, Native American

About 1900-1925

  • Titles Storage Basket (Descriptive)
  • Artist Creek people, United States
  • Medium river cane
  • Dimensions 16 3/4 × 19 3/8 × 5 in. (42.5 × 49.2 × 12.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by David Ridgway Goodwin, Darcy Janne Goodwin, and Carlton William Kelley III in memory of their grandmother Anne Parry Tillman, 2000.78
  • Work Type basket
  • Classification Containers

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