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Hood Museum Special Exhibitions

Spirit of the Basket Tree: Wabanaki Ash Splint Baskets from Maine

Through June 28, 2009

baskets1 Fred Tomah, Eagle’s Nest Basket, 2008, natural and dyed brown ash. Purchased through the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman ’40 Acquisitions Fund; 2008.42.

Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia

April 11 through August 31, 2009

Tapis1 Image (detail): Unknown artist, Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia,
tapis (woman's sarong), 19th century, silk and cotton cloth with gold-
wrapped thread, mirrors, and red wool. Lister Family Collection.
Photo © 2004 by John Bigelow Taylor.
Three tapis-clad women, Central Lampung, 1901.
Collection of the KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands; 3897.
Tapis2

Last Updated: 10/13/09