Object Details
- Culture/People
- Coushatta (Koasati)
- Artist/Maker
- Rosabel Sylestine, Coushatta (Koasati), 1923-1998
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Rosabel Sylestine, Coushatta (Koasati), 1923-1998
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1976; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- 1976
- Catalog Number
- 25/5387
- Barcode
- 255387.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Basket in the form of an owl
- Media/Materials
- Pine needles, raffia, pine cone/cones
- Techniques
- Coiled, stitched
- Dimensions
- 30.4 x 20 cm
- Place
- Elton; Jefferson Davis Parish; Louisiana; USA
- See related items
- Coushatta (Koasati)
- Containers and Vessels
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_271252
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws629785231-0a29-4dee-999d-f3ff78de39f0
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