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Round open basket with turned wooden base (with concentric turning circles visible) and rattan/cane weavers, a so-called "Nantucket Lightship" basket. The rim hoops are pinned in place and secured with a double lashing of cane. Donor's history indicates that the basket was woven by Captain Thomas James on the South Shoal Lightship, which first anchored off Nantucket in 1856.
baskets (containers)
rattan
wood (plant material)
Basket
Basket
Attributed to James, Thomas (Basket maker)
Nantucket, Massachusetts
4 3/8 (H), 11 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Harding Greene
1986.1019
Massachusetts (United States)
Nantucket Island (Nantucket county, Massachusetts) [island]
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