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Oval-sided baskets with square bases woven in natural straw and heightened with a criss-cross pattern in purple and green. There is an Emu egg carved with a Western scene in an oval reserve of a cowboy on horseback lassoeing a cow in front of a house with a fence.
baskets (containers)
carving (processes)
eggshell (animal material)
straw (plant material)
weaving
eggshell (animal material)
Straw
Eggshell
Woven
Carved
Basket
There is a stamp on the rims of both A & B: ""Made in China""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1992.485a,b
Unknown
4 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.485A-C
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