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Covered, cylindrical "fancy" basket of woven ash splint and sweetgrass. Body of basket (a) is woven from ash splints in alternating thick and thin weavers with overlaid "diamond" curlicues swabbed pink. Cover (b) is ash splint plain and curlicue weave with a sweetgrass rim.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
grass (plant material)
weaving
Basket, Trinket
Basket, Trinket
"11/5 OK 11/5" (handwritten)
"50 c" with "73c" crossed out (handwritten)
Fowler House Main House,
Attributed to Wabanaki peoples (Basket maker)
New England
8 1/2 (H), 6 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Fowler House Estate
1934.2997AB
1930-1940 (commercial dye)
New England (United States) [general region]
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