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Pantry box; oval form, conforming cover, with four tapered finger laps, painted yellow, interior with divider.
boxes (containers)
cookware
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
bentwood
Painted
Shaker
Bentwood
Box, Food-storage
Paper labels: 1) On top: ""Few balls/of little worth"" 2) Inside: ""Belonged to Sister Sadie Neale,"" etc. (see Provenance). 3) Inside: Shaker label: ""Prickly Ash Bark, crude.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.146A,B
Unknown
3 1/2 x 8 5/8 x 6 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.146AB
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