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An ovoid form basket with stepped, fitted cover and conforming base; the basket is made of coiled construction and is enhanced with colored straw in red and brown in a decorative band at the top and base. A-lid b-bottom; basket contains C-ostrich egg.
baskets (containers)
straw (plant material)
weaving
ostrich eggshell
Straw
Woven
Basket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8 x 9 x 7 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.481A-C
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