This large rectangular basket is woven from ash splints-- naturally colored and swabbed blue and green-- in a checker plainweave pattern. It has carved wooden handles set at the short ends of the rectangle and a carved wood rim held in place with a single ash splint lash. The weaver used smaller splints to form the base, with wider splints forming the weavers on the sides. This basket is of Native American manufacture.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
dye
Woven
BASKET
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
5.5 x 18 x 13 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.2173
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