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Cylindrical box [a] with cover [b] from Hawaii made of woven leaf strips in a classic check pattern. The cover fits over and extends two inches past the rim of the box. The sides of the cover have been decorated with four triangle designs woven in a dark orange colored leaf. Boxes like this were widely available in Hawaii for the tourist market.
boxes (containers)
leaf (plant material)
Box
"1.50" (small paper inserted into weaving on bottom of box with "1.50" written in pencil)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
4 (H), 7 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3689AB
Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. II, No. I on Google Books
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