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1800-1899
GUSN-2372
Wooden (oak?) sieve of large round shape with two-color horsehair filler stretched and bound between two wooden (ash?) hoops. Secured with copper tacks.
sieves
ash (wood)
copper (metal)
handmade
horsehair
oak (wood)
tacking
thread
Shaker (Christian sect)
thread
Oak
Ash
Horsehair
Fiddle Thread
Copper
Handmade
Tacked
Shaker
SIEVE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.5 (H), 14 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.392
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