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Tapering cylindrical wooden storage bucket with pine staves and ash bands; pointed overlapping joints secured with iron brads and staples; two bands at base and one near top where ash bale handle attaches to sides with dowels with knob shaped ends; similar conforming pine and ash circular top fitted over staves of body.
buckets (vessels)
cookware
ash (wood)
iron (metal)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Ash
Iron
BUCKET
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
9.625 (H), 10 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.763AB
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