Straight, rectangular form with rounded ends pierced at center with hole; a string is laced through hole.
coat hangers
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Shaker (Christian sect)
Pine
Shaker
Coathanger
Incised on the front: ""HM"" Written in ink on the edge: ""Shaker- Sabbathday Lake, Maine""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1 3/8 x 17 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1583
Maine (United States)
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