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Native American
Native American - Northeast and Southeast Woodland ➔ Basket
Identifier:
114655Description:
This fancy basket is made of ash splints with a pedestal base in the candy dish style. It is decorated with curlicue work and narrow weavers, which are dyed red and yellow.
Date:
1876 – 1925Materials:
Ash SplintsCurrent Location Status:
In StorageCollection Tier:
Tier 2Source:
Gift Of Mrs. Mary JoassExhibits/Programs:
Anishinabek: The People of this Place (1995 – 2025)Anishinaabek: The Original People of This Place (after 2026)
Redesign of the Anishinabek: The People of this Place exhibit. Ideas for potential artifacts.
Related Entity:
Mrs. Mary Joass (donor)Mary Widdicomb Joass was born in Grand Rapids on September 24, 1872. Her family had established the Widdicomb Furniture Company in 1858, which later became Widdicomb Brothers and Richards, among its other entities. The Widdicomb Company went out of business in 2002, although Widdicomb designs are still manufactured under the Gustav Stickley Company, which acquired those rights in 2002.
Mary Widdicomb married John Joass in 1914. She passed away in Grand Rapids in 1944. The GRPM has a handwritten genealogy of her family's history, starting with the birth of her great grandfather Billius Stocking, who was born in 1779.
