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This wall pocket is woven from narrow ash splints in a checker plainweave pattern. The pyramid-shaped back narrows from the width of the basket in a regular stepped decrease and is topped with an ash splint-wrapped ring for suspension. This wall pocket is most likely of Native American manufacture for the tourist souvenir trade.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
Straw
Woven
BASKET, HANGING
Pencilled on bottom: ""25""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
8.5 x 9 x 3.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.124
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