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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Rivercane basket Unidentified Native American; Cherokee 71.455 rivercane
Twilled plaited rivercane basket with handle Unidentified Native American; Cherokee or Choctaw (artist and user) 71.526 rivercane
Double weave rivercane storage basket with natural dyes Rowena Bradley, Gilcrease Foundation Native American; Cherokee 71.749a-b rivercane, butternut, walnut
Oval plain plaited buckbrush basket with natural dye Ella Mae Blackbear Native American; Cherokee (artist and user) 71.759 buckbrush, dye
Buckbrush Cherokee basket Ella Mae Blackbear Native American; Cherokee (artist and user) 71.758a-b buckbrush, natural dye
Double walled buckbrush round reed basket with walnut and bloodroot dye Ella Mae Blackbear Native American; Cherokee (artist and user) 71.760 buckbrush, walnut, bloodroot
Double walled buckbrush basket with small mouth, added feathers, leather strips, and painted wooden splint running horizontally Mavis Doering, Ms. Ginger Kingman Native American; Cherokee (artist and user) 71.774 buckbrush, feathers, wood, leather, paint
Basket Maker Roger Dickson Native American; San Carlos Apache 02.68 watercolor on paper
Large coiled basket tray with geometric triangular designs Unidentified Native American; Apache, Western (artist and user) 71.235 willow, devil's claw
Large coiled sumac basket tray with diamond shaped geometric designs Unidentified Native American; Apache, Jicarilla (artist and user) 71.237 sumac
Twined spruce root basket with geometric designs Unidentified Native American; Modoc 71.466 spruce, dye
Black ash storage basket with fitted lid and applied handles wrapped in ash splints Unidentified Native American; possibly Ottawa 71.511a-b black ash
Honeysuckle container basket woven around oak splint warps with a bundled honeysuckle rim Unidentified Native American; Cherokee, Eastern 71.515 honeysuckle, oak, rivercane
Small honeysuckle basket with handle and green dye Unidentified Native American; Cherokee (artist and user) 71.570 honeysuckle, dye
Coiled basket tray with triangular geometric designs Unidentified Native American; Apache, Mescalero (artist and user) 71.664 yucca
Oval shaped double walled buckbrush basket crib with handles Unidentified, Scott Swearingen Native American; Cherokee (artist and user) 71.781 buckbrush
Twined spruce root basket with attached base and geometric designs Unidentified Native American; Modoc 71.578 spruce
Coiled basket tray Unidentified Native American; Apache, Chiricahua (artist and user) 71.68 yucca
Large coiled basket tray with woven writing and geometric designs Unidentified Native American; Apache, Western (artist and user) 71.209 yucca, devil's claw
Doubled walled buckbrush storage basket with natural bloodroot dye Unidentified, Mary Frances Myers Native American; Cherokee 96.42 buckbrush, bloodroot