Round wood splint basket with tall, straight sides. Cover, except for rim fragment, is missing. Checker weave of wide splints alternating with bands of three narrow splints. Center weaver swabbed yellow. Cover standards swabbed blue or black. Basket rim reinforced by carved wood hoop attached to basket body and an exterior splint by a single binder splint.
baskets (containers)
wood (plant material)
weaving
carving (processes)
reed (grass, material)
Basket, Food Storage
Basket, Food Storage
[handwritten name on base - illegible] (handwritten)
Unknown
8 (H), 10 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Chester H. Arnold
1929.1678AB
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