Various Artists, Six Mohawk Baskets , sweetgrass and ash baskets; albumen prints; daguerreotype, circa

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Six Mohawk Baskets , circa

sweetgrass and ash baskets; albumen prints; daguerreotype

- One large-lidded yarn holder with handles on either side and a handle on the lid. Early 20th Century Mohawk maker; - One small-lidded trinket basket with decorative painting on the upper shoulder. Early 20th Century Mohawk maker; - Four small-lidded trinket baskets made by Nancy Snow, St. Regis, Mohawk, ca. 1900-1920; sold together with two albumen prints of Professor Herbert Strainge Long’s grandparents taken in 1863 and a daguerreotype of his grandfather.

9 × 7 × 6 in (22.9 × 17.8 × 15.2 cm) (overall (largest))

Auction Estimate:$500 - $800

Sale date:June 11 - 25, 2024

Price Realized

$1,020

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Dr. Herbert Strainge Long, Ohio Private Collection

These Mohawk baskets belonged to the family of Herbert Strainge Long, PhD (1919-2014), retired chairman of classics at Case Western Reserve University. His grandfather had been an Indian agent on the Mohawk Reservation on the St. Lawrence River in Canada, where Herbert’s father had grown up and learned to speak Mohawk. Professor Long was also fluent in Mohawk and learned it in his retirement from teaching in 1992.