Tapering cylindrical wooden storage bucket with pine staves and oak bands; pointed overlapping joints secured with iron brads; one band at base and one below top edge where oak handle attaches to sides with wooden dowels with knob ends; wood unfinished and unpainted.
buckets (vessels)
cookware
iron (metal)
oak (wood)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Iron
Oak
BUCKET
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
12.75 (H), 14.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.764
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