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Checker weave storage basket with stamped decoration. Interior lined with paper. Round, domed cover. Round base and straight sides in alternating wide and narrow weavers.
baskets (containers)
storage baskets
accessories
ash (wood)
weaving
stamp-decorated
Basket
Splint
Basket
Unknown
16 1/4 (H), 19 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ellen A. Robbins Stone
1927.2161
1850-1900 (Round base indicates later date)
Probably Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
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