Contributed by Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine
Description
This block produced a variety of tatting basket forms, such as acorn-shaped and strawberry-shaped tatting baskets.
Tatting baskets feature a loop handle to hang from the arm and a hole in the top of the basket for the tatting ball's thread to come out.
About This Item
- Title: Penobscot tatting basket block, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: ME
- Media: Wood
- Local Code: HM 5719
- Object Type: Physical Object
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Sweetgrass baskets
- Basket making--Equipiment and supplies
- Native American arts
- Tools
- Indian art--North America
- Implements, utensils, etc.
- Indians of North America--Maine--Implements
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For more information about this item, contact:
Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine5746 Maine Center for the Arts, Orono, ME 04469
(207) 581-1902
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