A HoChunk-Winnebago basket. The maker is from Wittenberg, Wisconsin. It sits on six legs at the six and a half inch base. The top is about one foot round. It is a traditional black ash basket with pink, blue and purple slats used to decorate the natural color.
8 inches tall to the top of the cover, and the circular handle at the top is about another one inch; circumference of the basket is 21 inches. The basket is made of hand cut slats of black ash. The base is leveled with sweet grass. All materials are traditional basket making materials of the Oneida Nation. Rows of red and green dyed slats are interspersed up the basket which is mainly made of the natural wood colors. It is signed and dated by the artist.
Smaller basket with green and red strips has approx. 4x6 inch base, and is 6 and a half inches high to the rim of the basket. ($40 plus S&H) The larger natural colored basket has approx. 8X6 inch base, and is 4 and a half inches high to the rim of the basket. ($60 plus S&H) Both are rinsing baskets, so the bottom has small square holes that allow the hulls to be rinsed through when washing the corn for soup or bread. Baskets are made from black ash trees harvested on the Oneida Reservation.