c. 1835

_Pennacook_—Northern Massachusetts

Case No. 4:

This basket is made of ash splints and is white on the interior. The exterior is decorated with designs painted in native dyes using a swabbing stick which has been pounded at one end to form a brush.

This earliest known type of painted-on decoration ceased about 1870. An approximate dating for this specimen can be established from an April 2, 1835, copy of the _Boston Daily Courier_, which lines the basket lid. (See Plate 2d)

UTILITARIAN—HISTORICAL _Wampanoag_—Massachusetts

Case No. 4:

This very plain basket, constructed of brown ash splints, was authenticated by the late Frank G. Speck, internationally known University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, as being _Wampanoag_.

The _Wampanoags_, now extinct, were a branch of the Massachusetts _Algonquins_.

This specimen was made by a direct descendant of King _Massasoit_, the Indian chief who met the Puritans at their Plymouth Rock landing in 1621. Massasoit was the father of King Phillip, for whom the King Phillip’s Indian Wars of 1676, were named. (See Plate 2c)

CEREMONIAL WINE BASKET