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Round "Nantucket Lightship" basket with swinging handle. Wide opening and without lid. Made of wood staves/ribs, rattan/cane weaves, copper alloy rivets and burs, wood handle, and turned and grooved cherry wood base.
baskets (containers)
rattan
cherry (wood)
reed (grass, material)
Basket
"Ada P. Pettes" (Stamped in Black Ink on handle; Appears to be family member of donor)
"
"75 / Hall 3P" (Pencil)
Unknown
Nantucket, MA
7 (H), 6.5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Helen Pettes
1943.542
Probably Massachusetts (United States)
Probably Nantucket (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)
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