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Shaker wooden coathanger of squared piece of wood cut into a sleek arch with cropped ends; stained yellow; 2 pierce holes at top and bottom with string for hanging.
coat hangers
piercing
cherry (wood)
carving (processes)
staining
string (fiber product)
maple (wood)
Shaker (Christian sect)
maple (wood)
cherry (wood)
Maple
Cherry
String
Pierced
Stained
Carved
Shaker
Coathanger
Handwritten in pencil on the underside at the left: ""SHAKER/COAT HANGER/ CHURCH FAMILY/ N. LEBANON""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1/5 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1587
New York state (United States)
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