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Dish-shaped round basket w/ red ribbon. Bundled straw or sweetgrass coiled to center and wrapped w/ larger straw pieces and red ribbon woven throughout.
baskets (containers)
coiling (pottery technique)
hand weaving
silk (textile)
straw (plant material)
Straw
Silk
Coiled
Woven
BASKET
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
3 (H), 6.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.2172
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