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Small square bottomed basket with a round opening. Checker and wicker weave ash splints. Standards swabbed red. Thin weavers swabbed dark blue, thick weavers stamped with geometric designs. Single-lashed lip. Native American-made, possibly Mohegan.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
weaving
stamping (marking)
Basket
Basket
Unknown
United States, Northeast
5 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 (HxWxD), 7 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Alice Allen Merrell, Charles Warren Allen, and Richard Lyman Allen
1966.52
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