Three-tiered splint basket wall pocket. Each section is rectangular in form, plain woven and left undyed, patterned with narrow dark blue-black weavers near the lip. The entire wallpocket was varnished sometime in the past, giving it a distinctive sheen.
baskets (containers)
wall pockets
ash (wood)
weaving
varnishing
Pocket, Wall
Splint
Pocket, Wall
Unknown
New England
29 x 18 1/2 x 8 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1927.2148
Probably Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
New England (United States) [general region]
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