This shallow, square basket has a hinged lid with a pair of ash splint rings attached to the lid and base at the front center to form a looped closure. The basket is woven from green and natural colored narrow ash splints alternating with braided sweetgrass. The base is formed from dyed green splints in a checker weave. The lip is bunched sweetgrass lashed in place with a green splint. This basket is of Native American manufacture, most likely for the tourist souvenir trade.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
grass (plant material)
Straw
Woven
BASKET
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
2.25 x 5.25 x 5.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.2150
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