Horse Feed Basket

Plaited Basket

Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Horse Feed Basket

Entry/Object ID

L2024.3.177

Description

Conical, ash-splint woven basket with wooden rim. Remains of leather straps.

Context

This is an amazing ash-splint utility basket one of only two that Wiseman has ever seen in the antiques trade. It is designed to add feed or something nicer for the horse to eat in the bottom of the tapered subconical basket while it is tethered. There are the remains of two black leather straps that affix the basket to the horse’s harness. It is uncertain at this time whether the basket is Native-made, but the Nulhegan Tribal records show several local and itinerant Indigenous basket sellers in the area in the early 20th century, and presumably they had parents who also made and sold baskets in the Northeast Kingdom. Large, coarse primitive baskets were known to have been made by both Euro-Americans and Abenakis.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1870

Place

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Feedbag

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Basket

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Feeder, Animal

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Animal Care Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Class

Animal Husbandry T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 04: Tools & Equipment for Materials

Dimensions

Height

12 in

Diameter

14-3/4 in

Material

Ash Splint