Lidded Basket
Artist
Melissa Darden
(North American Indian, Chitimacha, Louisiana, born 1968)
Date2007
MediumNatural and dyed river cane
DimensionsOverall: 10 5/8 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (26.99 × 26.67 × 26.67 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: A. Keith Brodkin Fund for the Acquisition of Contemporary American Indian Art
Object number2007.29.A,B
Signedinside lid (in pencil): "MD 2007"
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionLidded basket, square in form with slightly convex sides and top, the surface covered with repeated geometric designs in red, black, and tan.Gallery LabelContemporary basket maker Melissa Darden is one of only four remaining artists to carry on the ancient tradition of Chitimacha basketry. The design ornamenting this award-winning, double-weave basket is called Four Corner Muscadine, and features large, four-pointed motifs representing smashed berries that splatter in four directions. Darden utilizes materials, native dyes and designs that have been passed down for more than three centuries, and she practices the same techniques as her ancestors, using only a knife, her teeth and hands as tools.
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Melissa Darden
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