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This rectangular basket is made from ash splint. The basket base is checkerweave rising to pink-swabbed standards. The weavers are swabbed blue. The splints are hand cut with a knife rather than a splint gauge. Rims are splint, held in place with a single ash splint lashing.
baskets (containers)
ash (wood)
weaving
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
Basket
"sent by E [A Robbins Stone]" (Handwritten on tag. Half of tag torn off, missing.)
Possibly Wabanaki peoples (Basket maker)
New England
5 3/8 x 12 1/8 x 9 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1927.2179
1800-1900 (hand-cut splints normally point earlier, but pink and blue point to 20th century.)
Probably Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
New England (United States) [general region]
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