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Rectangular, straight-sided basket with two opposing small oval inset handles. Crosshatch weave with alternating wide and thin weavers. Wide splints have potato stamped floral and dotted decorative figures. Native American.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
weaving
stamp-decorated
Basket
Splint
Basket
Unknown
New England
5 x 11 x 8 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1926.514
Probably Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
New England (United States) [general region]
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